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Réalisées entre 2016 et 2019, les photographies en noir et blanc qui composent le projet Quest dépeignent des humains submergés par la routine quotidienne, perdus dans l’anonymat des grandes villes, face à l’incertain et à la recherche d’eux-mêmes. Le travail d’Alexandre de Mortemart a été largement influencé par celui d’André Kertész, de Bill Brandt et d’Aaron Siskind ; préface d’Agathe Gaillard, photos en n.b.
The black and white shot photographs (2016-2019), part of de Mortemart’s Quest project, portray humans deluged in daily routine, lost in the anonymity of large cities, facing the unknown in search of themselves. The characters are seeking solutions and perhaps answers to the reason for their existence – lost in the universe, with a sentiment of solitude and anxiety but with the desire to find a path in a rapidly changing world. With the belief that we are entering an era of increasing uncertainty where people are losing faith and lacking the answers to dealing with a fractured world, the men and women appearing in Quest are not capable of telling who they are, nor where they come from in a world they hardly understand any longer.
