
Xavier
Christau
I like to show what nobody sees in my immediate environment, by creating a loss of reference points to alter the relationship with reality and to appeal to the imagination. The image must be enigmatic, invite reflection.
I am not looking for a strict representation of reality because I want to express what I feel. I'm not very far from abstract expressionism, but I still like that the viewer can hang on to something Known. These are traces that allow us to create space-time and that connect us to reality, which awaken our imagination even more than a purely abstract representation.
Mysteries are found all around us, even in most of the familiar things. My photographic eye usually perceives at a distance at which two people could talk to each other. It’s a more human and intimate way.
Photographing helps me ask questions about the visible world and express my ideas about the passage of time and the inevitability of death.
I find myself in another space-time, in this sense I am outside the constraints of the world when I take photographs.
The search for this type of photography I have acquired intuitively since my teenage years when I started to photograph differently and to develop my own black and white photos. But it has been about seven years now when I retired that I decided to devote myself to developing this vision to complete my process.
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