During the recent photography exhibition in Coubron (held from April 8th to 19th), my work was honored with the Jury’s Photography Prize.

The award-winning piece, titled "The Father and his Son," was created in response to this year's theme: "Tenderness." Captured within the rush of the Paris Metro, this image freezes a moment of universal grace: the striking contrast between the harshness of daily life and the softness of the filial bond.

The jury was particularly moved by the detail of the father’s hands—hands weathered and worn by hard labor and a demanding life—holding his small boy with absolute protection. In the confines of a subway car, tenderness is not found in an idyllic setting, but in this protective embrace that serves as a sanctuary against the outside world.

This photograph bears witness to my commitment to capturing reality in its most vibrant and human form.

I am pleased to share an important recognition received during the exhibition at Galerie Thuillier, Paris, held from January 29th to February 12th as part of the "Samedi Vert" event. On this occasion, the Académie Arts-Sciences-Lettres awarded me the Jury Prize for my photograph entitled "Red Captation".

This work is part of my "Modern Portrait" series, a photographic exploration of contemporary society. Through these images, I examine how human attention is captured, and often absorbed, by the screens of our smartphones.

In this composition, the portrait appears to become digitized, with forms aggregating like digital data to illustrate the transition between the physical and the virtual. The award-winning photograph captures a moment of paradoxical disconnection: while the device is intended to create a bond, it instead crystallizes a unique form of isolation, transforming the subject into a disembodied figure—an aggregate of pixels and waves.

Receiving this prize from such a historic Academy underscores the relevance of this perspective on the shifting nature of our presence in the modern world.

La série "Écritures" est issue d'un travail sur carton qui s'inscrit dans une réflexion esthétique et philosophique globale de ce matériau et de ce qu'il dit de notre époque. 

C'est une œuvre graphique puissante qui sublime un produit industriel d'apparence simple mais qui contient en lui toute la grandeur hypnotique et contemplative des forêts.

Des cartons abandonnés, en les considérant pour eux-mêmes dans la matière, la déchirure dessine une nouvelle forme d'Écriture, et, de tableau en tableau, inscrit le message universel de la fragilité et de la beauté de notre temps.

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The "Écritures" series is the result of work on cardboard that is part of a comprehensive aesthetic and philosophical reflection on this material and what it says about our time.

It is a powerful graphic work that sublimates a seemingly simple industrial product but contains within it all the hypnotic and contemplative grandeur of forests.

Considering abandoned cardboard boxes for their own sake, the tearing creates a new form of writing and, from painting to painting, inscribes the universal message of the fragility and beauty of our time.

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Exposition Personnelle

Fonds Départemental d'Art Contemporain de l'Orne

VERNISSAGE 

Conseil départemental de L'Orne

Vendredi 18 avril à 18h00

Fonds d'Art Contemporain de l'Orne

Exposition Personnelle

Chapelle Saint-Nicolas - Argentan

VERNISSAGE 

Mercredi 23 avril à 18h00

Fonds d'Art Contemporain de l'Orne

Performance collective "Nuits berlinoises" - mercredi 28 mai - 19h30

14 septembre au dimanche 22 septembre 2024

Vernissage samedi 14 septembre - 17H

15 - 28 juillet

Salle P. Debaupuis

Nathalie Briet - Souhila Sais - Olivier Zimny

Académie Européenne des Arts France 

23-26 MAI 

Vernissage - Jeudi 23 mai - 18H

Institut pour la Promotion de l'Art

Exposition visible du 25 janvier au 6 février 2024

Vernissage jeudi 25 janvier --- 19H

Olivier Zimny, exposition Orangerie, été 2023.  Ouest-France 14 août 2023