Bertrand Clech
Photography is subversive, not when it is frightening, revolting or even stigmatizing, but when it is thoughtful. - The Clear Room, Roland Barthes
What fascinates me with photography is that it constantly questions the real. It is as much a philosophical and poetic practice as aesthetic and graphic. I try to find doors in the visual banality that lead to another reality, like a parallel world made up of the imaginary, the symbolic and the dreamlike. There are many realities, and photography helps me to discover that they are reflections of our states of mind.
Bertrand Clech
CONFERENCES
Currently lecturer at CELSA Sorbonne (for 10 years)
Lecturer at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (1996-1998)
FNAC Montparnasse conference (Architecture and Photography)
Sorbonne conference (Photography and the unconscious)
AWARDS
Winner of the City of Paris creative workshop
Silver medal of the City of Paris
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay
Exhibition at the Galerie Agathe Gaillard
Air France - City of Paris Prize
Group exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne
Robert Doisneau and young photography" exhibition
L'inconscient mis à 9" exhibition, Village Voice Gallery, FNAC
Group exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, "Les chemins de saint Jacques de Compostelle"
for Bayard Presse
Exhibition at the Franco-Portuguese Institute
Paris sur Mer" exhibition at Comptoirs du Marais
Le Sept Off" exhibition in Genoa and Nice
AIG bank exhibition (Renting Art)
PriceWaterhouseCoopers exhibition (Renting Art)