Motel Réflexion, 2022
Vivien Raynal  

Photography : fine art print · 20 x 30 x 1 cm 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch · Ready to hang

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Photography : numbered and limited to 20 copies

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Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang

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fine art print on Hahnemuehle fine art paper

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20 x 30 x 1 cm 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth

Artwork dimensions including frame

30 x 40 x 2 cm 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

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This work is from the series “Into the Night." This project explores the imaginary world of night, where darkness and silence reveal their own languages. Through an approach combining photography and digital art, these staged scenes explore the ethereal and enigmatic atmospheres of darkness, those secret, hidden, imagined corners of life where our deepest fears and desires are woven together. This work is an invitation to explore our own darkness, to navigate along that fine line between normality and what lurks in the shadows.

This intriguing artwork captures a moment of reflection and mystery. A man, seen in profile, stands before a round mirror, adjusting a cowboy hat. The subdued lighting creates an intimate and muted atmosphere, accentuating the contours of his face. The artistic blur envelops the image in a dreamlike aura, while the shades of green and blue add a touch of mystery. The subtle interplay between the man and his reflection raises questions about identity and self-perception. The composition highlights the contrast between the darkness of the background and the soft light, evoking a duality between reality and introspection. This captivating work invites the viewer to question the nature of the figure and his introspection, creating a visual experience that is both enigmatic and immersive.

Vivien Raynal, Motel Réflexion

Vivien Raynal

France  • 1980

Presentation

Vivien Raynal is a complete artist. Born into a family of artists, he grew up in the south of France. While music won his heart in his early years, it is drawing and cinema that have always been his passions. A musician, author, and composer, he travels the world and is captivated by images, moods, atmospheres, and artificial or gloomy lighting. He is fascinated by others, with their flaws, projecting his own vulnerabilities onto them.

Meditation and the exploration of altered states of consciousness instilled in Vivien Raynal an obsession with time, the present, and liminal spaces. The vertigo provoked by infinity is a fascinating vibration, like the immensity of the void. He then became aware that the image creates a new temporality because it emancipates itself from time, and that he would henceforth be able to fully express himself through this prism.

Vivien Raynal's work is neither confined to a single technique nor to a single discourse. It opens the doors to an imagination that is both intimate and universal. Solitude serves as inspiration, leading to offbeat universes imbued with marginality and tinged with madness.

Inspired by the unsettling atmospheres of the world's great cities, he is fascinated by dilapidated urban areas, isolated roadsides and kitschy, disturbing interiors… these places, built by men and then abandoned, are merely a reflection of the fragility of a system.

The striking aesthetic of his works emerges from the use of deliberately vibrant colors, as well as the starkness and purity of the image. These techniques create a contrast with the singularity of his subject matter: his compositions celebrate ugliness and madness, the filth and sordidness of humanity.

Perfection does not exist in man. Behind each of us lies a shameful part of ourselves that we conceal, yet which nevertheless seeps through each of us. It is man's fragility, his flaws, his perversions, his deviations, that make him human.

In a redemptive approach, he rehabilitates humanity, restoring its nobility: we are all fragile.

Text by Laetitia Deloustal, PhD in History and Art History, October 2023

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