Melting Point

Stéphane Couturier

The photographs of Stéphane Couturier (*1957) feature dynamic verticals and horizontals, elegantly curved lines and brilliant light and colour effects. The exhibition Melting Point offers a concentrated look at the Stéphane Couturier’s current work. A mere description of the motifs suggests a documentary character: we see façades of modern and traditional architecture and locations of automated industrial manufacturing. Yet Stéphane Couturier’s photographs are not intended to reproduce facts, but to present a new order of things that is inherent in the images. By superimposing two different photographs of the same location, the artist succeeds in creating colour-intensive, almost abstract images.