This Place Called Home
Hardcover
Signed Edition
96 pages
250 x 220 mm
2014
ISBN 9782350463353
Like the travel notebooks of Bruce Chatwin, whose writings offered an incredibly sensitive and humanistic vision of an Australia forever lost, the photographic wanderings of Matt Wilson – another Anglo-Saxon globetrotter – provide ineffable images of the different countries he has traversed. Few in number and extremely unique, these modest photographs take contemporary photography head on. Even framed, they are so small in format, they demand viewers to stop and scrutinise the details, much in the manner of a mini-painting filling a seventeenth century cabinet of curiosity. In that same way, they often seem somewhat damaged, as if corroded by the outdated film the artist uses. The visual result is opalescent: the very visible grain and decadent light outline areas of intimate shadows in nocturnal scenes and offer a smoky, misty rendering in daytime landscapes. This studied technique of the possibilities of antiquated emulsion accompanied with a keen vision represents the core of Matt Wilson’s language. As a result, what you see is tripped and a poetic sway is set in motion. This visual structure gradually informs an incidental narrative that reveals fictional lands on the cusp of a lucid dream.
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About the Photographer
Matt Wilson is a British photographer, born in 1969 in Tonbridge (Kent, United Kingdom). In 1988, he moved to New York, where he discovered his passion for photography. A self-taught artist, he learned analog techniques through various experiences as an assistant to photographers and in darkrooms. Gradually, he began exhibiting his prints in New York, where he was noticed by Christine Ollier, then director of the gallery Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris, which opened the door to international recognition.
Matt Wilson’s work is shaped by his travels and encounters around the world (Ukraine, Cuba, United States, Lithuania…). His landscapes are the result of meticulous composition and light treatment, reminiscent of master painters such as John Constable or Jacob van Ruisdael, and evoke true travel diaries.
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About the Publisher
For 27 years, Filigranes has been following an original and audacious path in artists’ editions. The editorial approach combines image and writing in unique books. Founded by Patrick Le Bescont, the catalogue offers 580 titles. The editorial approach is to combine Filigranes, in singular books, picture and writing, thus making cross eyes and sensibilities of photographers authors, artists and contemporary writers, without exclusion or styles genres.
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