Vincent Bousserez

In his photography over the last 20 years, Vincent Bousserez has explored both the untouched vastness of our planet and the interplay of scale and perspective, reminding us that "we are infinitesimally small on the scale of the Universe, a mere snap of the fingers on the scale of Time, and we often forget this". A self-taught artist inspired by Gilbert Garcin's surrealism and Ron Mueck's hyper-realistic beings of strange dimensions, Vincent made a name for himself by initiating a veritable photographic movement now used by many photographers around the world: in his Plastic Life series, he creates settings of small human figurines placed at the heart of our daily lives, delicately combining humour and social criticism. The artist soon left his studio to go and lose himself and his viewers in the remote regions of the Far North. The geography of these isolated places creates opportunities for him to play with scale and disconcerting perspectives, indirectly reminding us of the current human condition: the more we grow, and the more we expand, the more it costs the world around us. Vincent Bousserez breaks with scale and creates a strange testimony to the virgin territories of our planet, paying homage to nature and the fragile world around us. His work explores the relationships and tensions between exploration, expansion, isolation and destruction.

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