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A POINT OF VIEW

«Because at last, what is a man in nature? A nothingness with regard to the infinite,
an everything with regard to the nothingness, a middle between nothing and everything»

Blaise Pascal

A point of view is a research on the movement of the eyes and the image fabrication. At the line between categories and representations, between the infinitely big and the infinitely small, this long exploration is the witness of a situation : the one of our subjectivity facing the world. The collection of images, based on an intuitive and arbitrary free association, creates a dialogue between Science and Abstraction, Nature and Technology and then becomes the target of negotiations between reality and the imagination.

The first part of the project is a work on landscapes. It gathers images that were realized in various volcanic locations. Strongly inspired by the images that NASA rovers collected on Mars, these photographs give to the spectator a first person glance. A playful sensation of freedom from time and space is installed.

The second series was about urban dimension. As part of a travel to Tokyo, Thibault Jouvent decided to work on a vertical experience. Through realizing these ascendent views, he wanted to evoke again the idea of a first person glance. This look is all-knowing, it overlooks the action as well as it is detached from it. It manages to involve an unique observer that is, considering the first person view, the only one to see everything.

The third chapter of the project was the one of the Wafers. These discs serve as shelf for micro-structures manufacturing through photolithography. They are used for research on nanotechnologies, especially in communication. They symbolize the information miniaturization, the internet bubble and the curve of the world. They look like sort of an imaginary cartography, without scale landmarks.

The fourth step was realized in laboratory. It is composed of photographs that were realized with a scanning electron microscope. The topics of these snapshots are excerpts of volcanic stones that he brought back from Etna volcano. Their similarity with great spaces is highlighted.

This project take the form of a inkjet printed book and an installation, added to a video work and an archives collection from the Geneva observatory.

ティボー・ジューヴォン

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