Les deux palmiers, 2022

Christian Goetghebeur  

The two palm trees — Miami, United States

In Miami, two palm trees emerge from a contemporary architecture with assertive geometric volumes. Their trunks pass through the circular openings of a cantilevered slab, while their foliage unfolds in front of large architectural surfaces.

The composition relies on the meeting between two formal languages: the straight lines, planes, and controlled curves of the building on one hand, the irregular and supple shapes of the vegetation on the other.

The circular openings establish a particularly strong link between these two worlds, as if the architecture had been drawn around the trees.

With my photographic writing Sublimations, I explore this relationship between the living and the built.

Color and light become the materials of a composition where deep blues, luminous greens, violets, and oranges redefine the perception of volumes and foliage.

The tight framing accentuates the interweaving of forms and brings forth an almost abstract composition, in which the palm trees retain their singularity within a rigorously structured architecture.

This photograph offers a reading of the urban space where nature and architecture participate in the same visual balance, each asserting its own presence.

Technique and edition

Color silver gelatin print on Fujiflex Crystal Archive paper mounted on Dibond with matte edges.

Dimensions: 120 × 80 cm.

Limited edition of 15 copies, all formats included.