Page blanche, 2020

Mélina Bismuth  

Mélina Bismuth's photographic practice is a research on reconstruction and regeneration. Through his digital assemblages, the omnipresent photographic subject - urban works - fades away. She recomposes her own reality, through an abstract and pictorial work, sensitive and timeless.

His large photographic assemblages are made from photographs of urban renovation sites. Scaffolding tarpaulins, closed shop windows whitewashed with Meudon white, reflections on the windows... so many screens that conceal the works and delimit the border between the interior world and the exterior world, worn by time, dust, friction.

His collection of thousands of photographs becomes a palette of colors and textures, a material to model.

The word "rebuild" sums up his artistic gesture. He goes through a long process of fragmenting hundreds of photographs, then of reconstruction (assembling them meticulously so as to bring out movement, relief, depth).

The final work is a pigment photographic print on matte paper. The spectator, seized by the movement of this surface which comes to life, wonders about the very nature of the work and thus about the limits between photography and abstract painting. He discovers by carefully observing this material, ephemeral, in degradation, sublimated.