Divines Dérives

Starting September 5, Galerie Charlot presents “Divines Dérives", a solo exhibition by Jacques Perconte.

“For nearly thirty years now, Jacques Perconte has been traversing the mountains and forests of Europe to capture a multitude of images, which he later transforms into magnificent digital and impressionistic paintings—sometimes still, sometimes in motion—constantly on the verge of transformation. His work, which includes films for cinema, installations, paper prints, operas, and music videos, tells the story of a drift between the figurative and the abstract, between nature and machine, between one image and another. (...) In the Alps or in the wooded surroundings of Balduinstein, a small village in the Rhine Valley in Germany, Perconte makes the rustling of matter visible through a process that is both pictorial and experimental: to exalt the movements of nature and the elements (leaves, wind, rock) through the mannerist prism of a machine that becomes a brush, scissors, pencil, rasp, stencil… Each time, it’s as if the metamorphosis of the compressed image plastically reveals what was there, invisible or too little visible, in the landscapes themselves. (...) While Perconte has often staged the struggle between nature and technology—filming ships slicing through the sea to transport goods or logging machines devouring the earth to extract coal—he has more recently had to tame one of the latest fads of digital capitalism: generative artificial intelligence.”

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Extract of L’air et les songes by Corentin Lê