"Resonances" Exhibition

Fisheye Gallery and IESA arts&culture were pleased to invite you to Jonathan Bertin’s solo show.

The exhibition was held on Friday, February 23 and Saturday, February 24, 2024 at Fisheye Gallery

Résonances explores the aesthetic echoes between diverse cities such as Seoul, Florence, Venice, Paris, Casablanca, Rouen, or New York, celebrating the subtle connection between cultures and environments. Color, silhouettes, scenes, and details come to life through the artist’s photographic wanderings.

The exhibition Résonances evokes the harmonious vibration of colors captured in geographically distant places. Despite their apparent differences, these images resonate together, creating a visual concordance where local nuances blend to form a universal palette.

Résonances thus celebrates the subtle connection between cultures and landscapes through photography.

The common thread of the exhibition is to pair images of different environments and make them coexist. Cultures intersect, colors blend, echoing everyone’s memories. Through a meticulously chosen selection of photographs, Résonances takes the form of a colorful exploration that invites travel.

More than a simple exhibition, Résonances aims to create a space conducive to escape, in the heart of the capital.

This is an exhibition organized by the class of 30 students in the Masters 2 in Communication at IESA arts&culture!

They moved between communication, press relations, artistic direction, writing, and scenography to present this ambitious project.

A unique event, the result of a collaboration between IESA arts&culture, Troisième Rive, and Jonathan Bertin.

Jonathan Bertin

Biography

Born in 1996 in Normandy, Jonathan Bertin has lived and worked in Paris since 2023.

A color photographer working in both digital and analog, he has revealed himself as an artist of the ultra-banal.

After beginning in photography by roaming his region and studying in the world of imagery, weariness set in and he decided to begin a long introspective process by traveling around the world for two years.

Back in the Norman countryside, his vision would be strongly shaped by his explorations, forging his personal approach, which he would reproduce at home; the everyday would then become the playground of his practice.

In 2022, the artist brought this period of research to fruition and presented an off-site exhibition during Paris Photo at Galerie MR, 80 rue de Turenne, as part of his project New York Quête, which gives concrete form to this curiosity about spaces and human interaction with them.

Interview with Jonathan Bertin

Where does your love of photography come from?

The genesis of my passion for images comes from my relationship with colors; I grew up in an environment dressed in color, my eye was steeped in it, and today it guides my work. There is also this notion of the everyday that fills my process; I am fascinated by the rhythm it imposes and how people inhabit their lives, and being able to immortalize and restore splendor to those simple moments we neglect is a principle that moves me. On a more intimate level, photography offers me a way of seeing and appreciating the world that drives me a little more each day, like a living canvas that never stops evolving.

Coming from the digital world, you are about to exhibit in a prestigious art gallery. How would you describe this transition from screen to canvas?

Putting my images on paper is a deeply meaningful exercise in my eyes. We conceive and approach them differently, the connection with the viewer’s gaze is stronger, it is as if all the years of work, research, and introspection came to life for me. Showing them in a place like Fisheye Gallery makes this work even more concrete; just as the things I photograph are anchored in a space, at each exhibition I make sure to take possession of the place and have the same relationship with my images.

What sets a photo you select apart from all the others?

2 major factors guide my eye in my selection: substance and form. For me, form is the aesthetics of the image; I like it to be universal, so that one can dive into it innocently, without any context, out of pure love of the world, of color, of compositions, and of the things it depicts. Then comes substance, which is more intimate: what does this image say about me? Whether for me as an artist or for the person looking at it and the emotions it evokes in them. Each image is meticulously chosen to represent this colorful, resonant music that flows from my vision.

Tell us about the "Résonances" exhibition and what you wish to share through it?

Résonance is the fruit of several years of work and research; I think I managed to put my finger on this subtlety that fascinates me in the world and made it my playground. By making all these images from such different countries and settings coexist, a universality of the everyday emerges through colors, settings, and silhouettes; whereas through travel we seek a change of scenery, here the gaze unites these very different spaces. This project creates bridges and links between spaces through the poetry of things and their nuances.

Following this exhibition, what photographic ambitions do you have for the future?

For 2024, I am preparing a more intimate project of a different scale about my home region, Normandy. Inspired by the Impressionist movement, which will celebrate its 150th anniversary this year, this work is the fruit of 6 years of research and is built around notions of movement and color with a strong link to emotions.

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