Paintings Under Construction

A major focus of my work, the “Paintings Under Construction” are built around the lines, shapes, colours, materials and perspectives encountered on building sites and construction sites.

Based on a real photograph, the final images obtained by a double mirror effect create a new reality, like a hyperbole of our everyday environment.

These paintings are grouped (for the moment!) under five different themes, each following a logical subject, construction or, more simply, aesthetic: Scaffolding, Two-colour, Openings, Verticals and Floresta.

In 2023 and 2024, some of these photographs won Honourable Mentions in various international photography competitions – reFocus World Photo Annual Awards, ND Awards, Annual Photography Awards and Tokyo International Foto Awards– and a Silver Medal (Second Prize Winner) at the Fine Art Photography Awards 2023. The list of winning photographs can be found in the “Awards” section.

Original digital photographs, obtained by double vertical-horizontal homothety, cut-outs, collages and cropping of a single shot, taken between 2021 and 2025, in the Paris region (France) and in Quito (Ecuador).

Go directly to the series:

• Scaffoldings
• Bichromies
• Openings
• Verticals
• Floresta

Temporary elements that are increasingly present in our everyday lives, ‘Scaffolding’ and its distinctive aesthetic are at the heart of the theme of « Paintings Under Construction ».

The composition of each image is entirely organised around the striking visual effects and optical disturbances directly generated by the excessively multiplied horizontal and vertical lines of the scaffolding structures.

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The photographs grouped here have in common a limited colour palette, whether they are constructed around a few main hues or a restricted cameo of colours.

These reduced colour ranges serve to accentuate all the more the effects of jerky rhythms and visual cadences generated by the arrangements of metal frames.

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These photographs are characterised by a visual break in the overall composition.

Like a veil being torn or a curtain being opened, the overall harmony and the resulting apparent simplicity are shattered by a dissonant structural element revealing more complex forms.

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This series is based around images structured by the strong presence of verticals, the backbone of the overall composition of the photographs.

This verticality reflects our contemporary cities, where buildings are rising ever higher, and where people’s living space is shrinking or even disappearing in the face of the almost exponential vertical growth of the places where they live.

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The mini-series ‘Floresta’ is based on the unity of its location, namely the construction site of a three-storey building in the La Floresta neighbourhood of Quito (Ecuador). The shots were taken over a period of three months, thus showing the relative permanence over time of the temporary construction structures (scaffolding, sheet metal fencing, raw concrete, tarpaulin).

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