Fine Art nominee

The time to live things, to feel them, to go through them. The time required to slide the surface of the skin from one suction to another and bring us the sensation of softness or roughness. I look beyond, scribble, capture photons, take notes. Then the time of mixtures and assemblies as tedious as jubilant. This is the principle of approximation.

In «aproxima», the idea was to find methods of implementation that would bring me closer to the feeling of lived. Photos and drawings were conducted simultaneously. Then I force the photos to go to drawing (gum dichromate). The goal bends to the subjective.
Each photo-graph is unique, size 18cm x 24cm.
I am physically and mentally immersed in an incompressible space-time. The closer things are, the more they concern me. At the closest, they invade me or penetrate me. The space touches me. This is the principle of proximity.
My life is crossing other lives. Spatially. Temporally.

The pleasure is at both ends of the chain:
First note taking (photos, drawings) to arrive a few weeks later to the final phase of restitution during which things resurface little by little like out of nowhere, if not from my memories.

Yves Leblanc was born in Paris in 1957. He lives and works in Paris.
Passionate designer, author of books on the perception of space translated into English and Chinese, he likes to define himself as a lost scientist. He builds his cameras (pinhole), makes his photosensitive emulsions and writes his own lines of code. The body is omnipresent in its images. It denudes the photo, reduced to its simplest expression: the journey of a photon from the surface of the skin to the surface of the paper. A story of sensations, textures and time. How not to think about the look and our own way of capturing our environment.
Fundamentally self-taught, Yves Leblanc tries to get the different artistic sectors he has crossed from sculpture (Figuration critique, 1986, Paris) to the digital performances of the Fiktiva festival (Düsseldorf, 2017, NRW museum), and the photography at (Venice, a Topos - 2019).