 NOVEMBER : ERIC BOUTTIER |
Night. Room 301, Eiffel Park Hotel, Monday 27th August 2007
The door closes behind me, a calm sets in, and with it the evidence of an image already present. In this place of passing, intimacy has found its place. A classic, “Sleeping”, and the soft loving regard turned towards this body and its simple grace: the naked silhouette, eyelids closed, skin soft and milky, huge bed and shared pillows, sheets white and crumpled by sleep, posture and absence offered, the cocoon reinforced by tight framing, looking back at itself. The woman is thus imprisoned in this latent state of sleep – both profoundly of the earth, with its weight and torpor, and of the air, floating above the sheets, a thousand miles away already.... And yet, there's a fault there, somewhere in the image. Is it in this hand placed near the face, suspended between invitation and timidity? Something in the details of the bed head, which looms over the sleeping beauty? Or perhaps the daylight – a light that is harsh already, inappropriate, almost violent – that smashes the peaceful feeling of deepest night? What did you dream of? What were those dreams that will join and complete the memories of all those who have preceded us here, hanging on with them to the golden branches of the wallpaper, which roll and turn endlessly upon themselves, carefully keeping prisoner the regard of whoever contemplates them – and what were mine?
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Eric Bouttier 11 allée des citeaux Email: ericbouttier@gmail.com
Biography After doing a degree in cinema in Paris (Centre Saint Charles), Eric Bouttier's previous degree in Science and Technology led him to further his research of the space between still and moving images, by concentrating on the links that join temporality and territory. How can the actual substance of territory, its surface and its form, become imbued with memory? What can landscape tell us about time passing? These questions led him to reflect on both the intimate territory of his origins (Brittany, childhood belonging: D'ici (From Here), a photographic series (2002-2006) and video based on super-8 films, 2007) and frontier territory, at the edge of or fringe between two different states, in which the natural elements are subject to very specific geographic conditioning (Rue de la Gare: The Fictitious Landscapes, 2004-2005: a slow and fragile reconstruction of landscape in an abandoned urban wasteland; Before the ocean, 2006: landscapes between earth and water; En Dehors (Outside), 2007: slideshow between an open and closed space, interior and exterior). Eric Bouttier is currently working on the notion of thresholds in landscapes, looking - at the edge of tracks – for the precise point where one faces another world of different possibilities. That 'somewhere else' that you can't place, the 'over there' you cannot reach, the place where the 'landscape' really starts. Since 1992, he has been working as an author-photographer on audiovisual projects such as the documentary film “Germaine Dulac” (2006, 52 min., Fas Production, France 3, Ciné Classics) and on the documentary series ”A Portée de Paris” (Not Far From Paris) (2004, 10 x 28 min., Focus Film, Mezzo), directed by Anne Imbert.
Exhibitions July 2007 May 2007 March 2007 November 2006 September 2006 September 2006 June 2005 August 2005
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