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IDEA-Prefiguration: Charlie Jouvet

Geheimnistraeger, 2005, "POINT IN TIME" - IDEA-Prefiguration in the studio at Aqua Carré Berlin, 2013

Geheimnistraeger, 2005

Charlie Jouvet (b. 1973) is a French artist living and working in Berlin.

He studied at the National School of Photography (l’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP)) in Arles, France, graduating in 1997. Since then, he is working on personal photographic projects. He also teaches at the French University in Paris and gives workshops.

Charlie’s works have been exhibited in Cambodia, France, England, Ireland, Germany, Poland and Switzerland.

«French born and alumnus of the E.N.S.P of Arles, Charlie Jouvet chose to live and work in Berlin while collaborating periodically with Université de Paris. His artistic approach to the photographic medium is a mixture between amazement and reverence, or as he puts it, ‘I try not to disturb what I see. I see each of my pictures as the result of an uncertain process. When I finally get an image, it’s always like a gift’. He elaborately channels the viewer’s eye through gritty layers of thick mists, towards places and territories inhabited by secrets. He reassembles the layers with each frame of a series, playing with the elements in a cinematic manner. After he mentioned the “empty landscapes”, I went back to check again, as they felt enigmatically alive. A reason might be that the leading characters are being portrayed in their absence – the history of the World War, the traveling neighbour, the lost vineyards of Moldova…» (Extract of the interview made by Luisa Mogosanu on Blick- See more at: 

blick.berlinerpool.de/charlie-jouvet )

 

www.mueki.com 

©Charlie Jouvet

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