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©Les Nivaux, Pot II, photographic object 53x77cm, printed on dibond and laser cut.

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©Les Nivaux, Conserve I, photographic object 75x56cm, printed on dibond and laser cut.

CRUSHINGS

Roswell, nothing to see, everything to imagine

Beauty in the ugly, truth in the image.

In Africa, Pascale and Thierry collected these cans, drums, tin cans, paint pots…. They litter the streets and tracks everywhere, crushed, deformed by the passage of cars and carts, worn by sand and time, discolored by the sun.

The artists collect them and, as usual, scan them!

They stand out in the image, sometimes alone or in series, in patterns or in variations, with a disturbing sensation of relief amplified by the "hyper" precision of the details, one of the technical specificities of the scanner.

The Nivaux push photography and its mode of exhibition further, they give it a materiality. They make photographic objects from them, by printing them on dibond plates and cutting them with a laser following the silhouette of the can, the pot or the bottle, and in large format, as if to challenge the consumer.

From this daring encounter between the crushing of the street, the compression of the perspectives of the scanner, the direct printing on dibond and its cutting is born a disturbing artifact of our contemporary world which questions the beauty in the ugly, and the truth in the image "This is not waste" .

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©Les Nivaux, Bottles series I

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©Les Nivaux, Pot III, 72cm photographic object, printed on dibond and laser cut.

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©Les Nivaux, Canette III photographic object 78x54cm, printed on dibond and laser cut.

Personal exhibition Galerie Centre Iris Paris
Personal exhibition Galerie Centre Iris Paris

©Les Nivaux, Personal exhibition Recycled/Sublimated at the Centre Iris gallery, Paris 2011

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