Close up of "Herbarium #34" photographic print on cotton paper 30x40cm
Anne Greuzat was born in Paris in 1979.
She studied at the School of Fine Arts in Urbino in Italy and then at the University of Aix-en- Provence where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts.
She then continued her studies at the National School of Photography in Arles where she received her diploma in 2007.
During her studies at the ENSP in Arles, she received a scholarship to study photography at Helsinki (University of Arts and Design).
Since 2008, she lives and works in Brussels.
Her work has been exhibited in Belgium, France, Austria and Switzerland.
She published in 2017 at Yellow Now Tempo Largo, a first monographic work in the Angles Vifs collection, on the occasion of the photography biennial in Condroz.
A new book entitled Rhizomes was released this year.
Herbarium is the title of a series of photographs I started in 2020.
This period of confinement has reshaped my way of photographing. However, the object of my research remains the same: it is the landscape as an object of contemplation and more particularly the natural landscape, untouched by human intervention.
In my previous series Rhizomes, the landscape I portrayed was abundant - green undergrowth, lush forests, rock cliffs - and its restitution implied that I immerse myself in this original nature.
Herbarium is the antithesis of abundance, of profusion.
Herbarium is on the side of denudation, of stripping down, of restraint.
The multitude has given way to the individual.
Each plant is isolated, extracted from its context and photographed on a white background, indoors, in a studio.
The vastness of the landscape has given way to a more restricted, more confined universe.
The distance between the lens and its subject has been reduced. Nevertheless, the intention, the aim is identical because the gaze, which was lost in the ramifications of trees and roots, is absorbed here in the contemplation of the details of a flower, its texture, its colors, its forms.
The pleasure experienced then is of the same origin as that experienced in larger spaces.
She studied at the School of Fine Arts in Urbino in Italy and then at the University of Aix-en- Provence where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts.
She then continued her studies at the National School of Photography in Arles where she received her diploma in 2007.
During her studies at the ENSP in Arles, she received a scholarship to study photography at Helsinki (University of Arts and Design).
Since 2008, she lives and works in Brussels.
Her work has been exhibited in Belgium, France, Austria and Switzerland.
She published in 2017 at Yellow Now Tempo Largo, a first monographic work in the Angles Vifs collection, on the occasion of the photography biennial in Condroz.
A new book entitled Rhizomes was released this year.
Herbarium is the title of a series of photographs I started in 2020.
This period of confinement has reshaped my way of photographing. However, the object of my research remains the same: it is the landscape as an object of contemplation and more particularly the natural landscape, untouched by human intervention.
In my previous series Rhizomes, the landscape I portrayed was abundant - green undergrowth, lush forests, rock cliffs - and its restitution implied that I immerse myself in this original nature.
Herbarium is the antithesis of abundance, of profusion.
Herbarium is on the side of denudation, of stripping down, of restraint.
The multitude has given way to the individual.
Each plant is isolated, extracted from its context and photographed on a white background, indoors, in a studio.
The vastness of the landscape has given way to a more restricted, more confined universe.
The distance between the lens and its subject has been reduced. Nevertheless, the intention, the aim is identical because the gaze, which was lost in the ramifications of trees and roots, is absorbed here in the contemplation of the details of a flower, its texture, its colors, its forms.
The pleasure experienced then is of the same origin as that experienced in larger spaces.