: Bluffing aquatic reflections in the eye of Chantal Blanpain

: Bluffing aquatic reflections in the eye of Chantal Blanpain
Perpignan: Bluffing aquatic reflections in the eye of Chantal Blanpain

Until February 23, at the Tiers-Ordre chapel in , the City's Culture Department is presenting the exhibition of photographs by Chantal Blanpain.

Who is she? What does she see? How does she do it? Three questions that spontaneously come to mind when looking at Chantal Blanpain's photographs. She approached the medium as an autodidact, and from childhood. A passion born from “the desire to write with light”. In 2003, her first exhibition took place in where she lived for around twenty years. During this period, Chantal Blanpain regularly participated in the Ibo photographic festival, but also co-created the Artyfocal collective, in order to “promote and develop an artistic and poetic conception of photography”. Since 2017, she has combined poetic writing with photography through short texts and other haikus, which she presents in the form of leporello.
Over time, Chantal Blanpain has nourished her approach and her vision of encounters, of colors “fished” during her travels to the four corners of the world, of pareidolia, of the unusual, of the unexpected.
It is now based in Port-Vendres. Inseparable from her little ®Canon G9, she continues to stare, during her walks, at scenes of life and landscapes. More precisely, Chantal Blanpain likes to photograph elements: mineral, plant, aquatic. “I am a detail photographer and I simply capture what I see, she explains. I don't do any retouching. If there is intervention, it is later and takes place at the level of cropping or combining images.”
For this Perpignan exhibition, Chantal Blanpain just captured the reflections on the surface of the water, composing with the light of the sun, the sky, sometimes the clouds.
This Aquatic reverie was carried out on the quays of Port-Vendres and Sète, the banks of the Canal du Midi and the Rhône, or even the Chaussée du Bazacle on the Garonne. Silhouettes, construction sites, facades, blend together, dissolve into tiny frizzes or denser swirls. In this game of trompe l'oeil, Chantal Blanpain offers us pure abstractions. End of scale and benchmarks, room for imagination! And shapes, geometry, texture, relief, ethnic patterns, earth tones (yes!). A highly vibrant, extremely pictorial work, born from a look that is as attentive as it is reactive. Stunning reflections, mirrors of dreams.

Chapel of the Third Order, Place de la Révolution Française, in Perpignan. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free entry.

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