Nudes nominee

Between nature and culture, as between body and mind, our relationship with the world depends on dualisms that are so deeply ingrained that they constitute us. This series is part of my work of exploration and reflection on these dualisms.
I have taken refuge from my own discomfort in this tug-of-war “between two worlds” in an idealized aesthetic universe where naked bodies, attempts to represent the human without cultural and temporal markers, are “naturalized” by their very presence within so-called natural spaces. An ideal that finds itself facing its own artificiality, unable to erase the culture that naked bodies carry within themselves and in the way they are represented, as natural as they may be, nor to make us forget the anthropization of all these places. The uncomfortable position, between two worlds.

Matthieu Soudet is a french artist born in 1992, living and working in Normandy. He started photography when he was 9 years old. He began with portraying wildlife, winning several prizes when he was still a teenager. With the money he won he bought his first own camera, and he’s been creating magical portraits ever since. Although Matthieu changed his focus from wildlife to staged portraits, nature is still the main subject of his recent work.