Nanterre Tours Aillaud

Modern Paradoxes – Pont de Térénez is a contemporary photographic series dedicated to the Pont de Térénez, an emblematic work of the beginning of the 21st century, designed by the engineer Michel Virlogeux and the architect Charles Lavigne.

While the bridge is immediately recognizable in all its scale and structural finesse, the series does not seek to offer a classic documentary interpretation. The choice of a filmic rendering, the addition of textures, numbers, lines, and graphic fragments deliberately disrupt the image's neutrality.

This work on architecture and engineering is based on an acknowledged paradox:

To highlight the modernity, precision, and technical prowess of a contemporary work using visual techniques drawn from an older, almost obsolete, imaginary, such as that of analog aesthetics and experimental photography. The language of modern engineering here engages in a dialogue with that of the trace, the grain, the imperfection.

Through this series, the bridge becomes more than an infrastructure, beyond the artistic photograph of a work of art as we usually conceive it.

It transforms into a projection surface, a graphic object, a mental territory where calculation, matter, tension and memory, modernity and paradox intersect.

A way to question our relationship to progress, technology and the representation of great contemporary works.