V. Durruty | Bureau des Objets Émotifs

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A French photographer, Véronique Durruty's
artistic works aims at rendering senses and sensations visible. Her approach of colors, her use of light waves create moving, tactile, fragrant photographies. Beyond the optical perception, they bring out feelings and emotions.

She merges styles, signs and fields, eye and nose, eye and ear, eye and words. Her tactile approach, both intuitive and rigorous, evolves on various media, mainly photography, but also film, writing, drawing.

Bureau des Objets Émotifs felt exactly what
Claude Nori describes about her work in his book Histoire de la photographie en France,
des origines à nos jours (Ed. Flammarion) :

"[Her] camera transposes emotions and vibrations forming sensual, mysterious, always harmoniously composed images."

Véronique Durruty lives and works in Paris. Her work was published in over 20 books and presented through exhibitions throughout the world.

Find out more on

www.veroniquedurruty.free.fr

VÉRONIQUE DURRUTY

Del Aor introduces the four artworks that were selected: Simple Chaud X, Algorithme VII, Gris Limite and Pelouse Or.

SELECTED WORKS

Véronique Durruty introduces the nine photographies that were selected.

- Wool and silk stoles
- Lambskin gloves, cashmere lining
- Leather tote bags

- Leather pouches

OBJECTS TO WEAR

OBJECTS TO DISPLAY

- Porcelaine serving dishes

- Trays

- Lamps

"Fragments de Nature" is a tactile serie of very close focuses on natural details. However, unlike with macro shots where every single line is enhanced, the artist uses here a very low field depth to bring out nature's quivering. Here, a leaf from the forest, red. Whereas sappy leaves are "archetypally" green and red means automn and death, this one is of the energetic red of healthy blood. Its veins, like vessels, beat along a natural breathing.

Silver process photo. Lambda artwork print under plexiglas 60x90cm, single original.

Fragment de Nature, Rouge Forêt

This works calls out to the Thousand and One night universe, be it an oriental palace or a funny elephant with his palanquin carriage behind. Just like in dreams, bearings are distorted (is this a building, its shade, a projection, like in Plato's cave?). Light is improbable, coming from illogical sources as if the sun had an appointment with the moon (but they may be playing hide-and-seek, both are out of the frame), bathed in a blue milky surrealism.

Blues, Paysage Émotionnel 5

The sharp and mineral aspect of the mountain is counterbalanced by shade variations – a warm and cold mauve on boulders and coulds, a turned-down green on hardly perceptible grassy areas in the foreground; by the openness left by the image – is the temperature mild? or cold? are they glaciers or clouds clinging to the montain top?; and by the cotton-wool landscape appearence given by the moving focus.

Blues, Paysage Émotionnel 4

Reference points get blurry. Yes these are trees, but in an astonishing manner: is this a reflection? Trees seen through fog? Or mist on the camera lens? Branches move inconsistently: here shaking a lot, as if the wind was strong, there appearing totally still. Trees, oddly transparent, become characters: glances, spread out hair, wide moving arms.

Silver process photo. Artwork printed in digigraphy on Canson fine art paper. Serie of 5 units, 80x120 cm.

Blues, Paysage Émotionnel 3

A work belonging to the "Blues" serie where the artist tries to pick a moving state of mind, an interspace. The viewer is suspended between dream and reality, day and night, peace and nostalgia. This image, at once cold, with its winter atmosphere and deep blue hues, yet enveloping with the imperceptible horizon smile or the moving branches soft woolly lace, works like a developing bath for emotions.

Silver process photo. Artwork printed in digigraphy on Canson fine art paper. Serie of 5 units, 80x120 cm.

Blues, Paysage Émotionnel 2

Silver process photo. Artwork printed in digigraphy on Canson fine art paper. Serie of 5 units, 80x120 cm.

Also from the "L’Heure des Loups" serie, this work is a tribute to Van Gogh, with its unreal night blue sky, a vibrating Prunus dulcis flower pattern, and even the set's Japanese feel – truly a themed print. Van Gogh sort of "imposed" himself over the shoot.

Silver process photo. Artwork printed in digigraphy on Canson fine art paper. Serie of 3 units, 80x120 cm.

Un Signe de Van Gogh

Silver process photo. Artwork printed in digigraphy on Canson fine art paper. Serie of 3 units, 80x120 cm.

Abri Anti - Ombres

From the "L’Heure des Loups" serie - images shot between dusk and dawn, when one dreams – this closed louvered shutters photography is enigmatic: is this an adandoned house? Is there someone inside fending off night shadows or rampant saltpeter? Sleeping peacefully until daybreak? Lilac hues, together blue and red, cold and warm, melancholic yet soothing, leave open every possibility.

From the "About Colors" serie, a tactile work on colors. Very close zoom on pigments on the ground, in a street, in India, during the holi festival, dedicated to love and colours. Accidental and ephemeral artwork, soon stamped over, received as a tribute to Pollock. Colour pinch, madness pinch, sensual powder pinch, the Indian rose soft energy is lifted by a sunny yellow right behind, as the skimming field depth shades out a blurred softness.

Un Souffle de Rose

Silver process photo. Lambda artwork print under plexiglas 120x180cm, single original.

This image is centered on a vein that breathes life into the mineral world – an arid desert stone, near Petra. The stone's "skin texture" is highly perceptible, while the golden blood seems far from solid. It melts into a blurried softness and flows away, making the stone's heart beat, very much alive. The precious, unusual yellow and mauve stone hues play an ode to the world natural beauty, its hidden sensuality.