Conceptual nominee

To render visible this paradigm change Jean Philippe Pernot has chosen to work with fabric. Fabric is the ultimate veil between the public body and the naked body. First and finally discarded, its imagery is reminiscent of concentration camps and genocides.
The last trace, timelessly frozen, is the final representation of what was once but can no longer be. For his work Jean-Philippe Pernot utilizes old techniques, such as wet collodion, low sensitivity glass plates, natural light, sometimes combining two low power light boxes to sustain an ambiance. In their composition Pernot‘s photographs are driven by a quest for the intimate and the universal.
“La Disparition” presented here constitutes his latest series involving the figurative rendition of a transitional body. The next series will focus on traces left on pieces of fabric, such as body pieces imprinted in the fabric.
One finds in Jean Philippe Pernot’s work an absolute urgency to expose-express- and make known the profound mutation that humanity is undergoing, in itself and in its primary universe, planet earth.

The « transfraction »
The entirety of the work falls within this time of settlement  and gives evidence to the work beyond its primary representation. Oxidation, loss of reflection, vibration of the silk, all arise from this sur-passed  time which engraves more than it prints. These illustrations, fruits of a quest of the Being beyond its representation, favor the access  of the sentient . And reveal the lies of time congealed by an encapsulation of its wanderings, its demonstrations, its disappearances, by exposing them in an image as in a frame outside of time.