Published to coincide with the exhibition of the "E-1027 + 123" series at Rencontres d'Arles 2025, this book presents the entire series of large-format photographs, which will be accompanied by a text by art historian Nathalie Herschdorfer.
From Berlin's construction sites to Fernand Pouillon's 1950s housing projects in Algiers, Stéphane Couturier's work rethinks the relationship between the photographic medium and its supposedly objective nature. Using a principle of combining several shots, the artist proposes, with a great diversity of forms and colors, true photographic constructions, close to abstraction, while keeping a strong documentary anchoring - thus creating a new visual architecture.
The "E-1027 + 123" series, which takes as its subject the villa E-1027 designed by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici in the 1920s - and on which, a few years later, Le Corbusier would apply his frescoes - continues this testing of the photographic medium. By superimposing the architecture of the building on the painted frescoes, on the furniture and exterior space, Stéphane Couturier sketches the history of the site.
Through some thirty large-format photographs in which the viewer's eye is confronted with the multitude of details that suggest, without ever fully defining, the contours of the villa, the artist also reveals the synthesis of the arts at play in this architectural ensemble.
Author(s) : Stéphane Couturier
Publisher : Xavier Barral
Distributor : Interforum
Release date : 12/06/2025
EAN : 9782365114493
