NEWS (2023): « TANT QU’IL Y AURA DE LA LUMIÈRE ». Selection 2008-2023. La Petite Place des Arts (St-Mathieu du Parc, Qc, Canada)

Philippe Boissonnet's creations cut across several expressive forms: drawing, photography or electrography (Copy Art), holography and light, sometimes video and interactive installation. From one media to another, he has always been able to demonstrate his interest in the emerging of visible, ... and its possible disappearance. From the mid-1980s, his unique approach favored an aesthetic of artistic crossbreeding. His works emphasize the fragility of appearances. He uses various strategies such as luminous transparency and spatial ambiguity of images, or is playing with deconstruction and reconstruction. It thus aims to make people feel the limits of our perception of reality, and of our representations, of the body and of our terrestrial world.

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«The notion of fragility is at the heart of Philippe Boissonnet's production. His particular use of holography testifies to this (…). For a few years, Boissonnet has used this fragility to say another: that of the Earth and the beings it carries… ». (Jean Dumont, 1995)

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Philippe Boissonnet endeavored to showcase the volatility, the ambiguity, the diversity, the elusiveness of our images of the world. He gives us a brilliant demonstration of this, sometimes using drawing, sometimes photography or sculpture, and a lot of holography, the most complete and yet the most uncertain technology…”. (Hervé Fischer, 2017)