THE TWO LABYRINTHS by Michel Le Belhomme

While I hold a great respect for classical traditions of photography, I believe it is indispensable to place them in perspective. This series explores its most blatant legend: landscape and its representation. Landscape, the ultimate romantic subject, most often expresses itself from the angle of the contemplative or the breathtaking. Etymologically, a landscape is a layout of traits, characters, and shapes of a limited space.
But it is to be seen firstly as a system, perfect theorem of flows and crossings, of borders and intermixing. In this series, I firmly choose to stand “in conflict” with the landscape, as a vision and as a product of space and despite its apparent obviousness I assume it can be put in perspective and thus reinvented. To do so, I have a structuralist approach of the spectrums of exploration, analysis of this visible production.
To experience landscape is to practice it, to place it in contradiction, thus creating a peripheral vision. The visible then asserts itself through deconstruction and alteration. Without moving away from the primary function of an image, which is to show, this series elaborates hybrid and fanciful creatures, images of images, representations of representations.
Halfway between dreamt-up images, suspended between documentation and fiction reality swiftly moves from obviousness to abstraction. The visible thus becomes minimalistic, ghost-like, a breathtaking void.