ARTIST STATEMENT -1-

Artvideos titled Dolphins, Transitoriness ( included
in the British Museum collection), dolphins,
effervecence pills, orthodox church, speak with images
mixed with sound, in an elaborate montage that
emulates one's imagination.
And encourages one's of having their own
interpretations, through imaginative stimulus...
Using music, editing techniques, repetitive images, an
original concept, and the utilization of storytelling
notions.

The ensemble of my photography works is wrapped up in
a diary style survey of my aesthetic preferences.
Made out of attentive observations where my life
events have transported me.
The different work series ultimately come together in
a reverie collage.
In an omnipresent and also very direct attempt to
unveil life's deep mysteries the work is mostly
revolving around the themes of loneliness,
psychological states, betrayals, fantasy and reality
realms, blurring system beliefs.
It is translated visually with an imagery of empty
melancolic interiors, extreme close ups of human
forms, close ups of objects, exteriors, abstract
environment which are emotionally charged with a range
of expressed and repressed feelings.
The photos tell the story of social changes throughout
decades, and freezes time into a kaleidoscope of
photos mixed with newspaper clippings, journal entries
and the use of mixed media.
Individual portrait's placed together to suggest a
single narrative in an exhautive editing process; that
aim at a critical, long thought juxtaposition of
photographs.
In an inherent artistic logic, the ensemble of the
work thrive to make people think.
Using subjectives point of views designed to haunt
them for a long time.

Emmanuelle Gauthier

New York, September 2005