Mathieu Bernard-Reymond

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond is a French photographer living in Switzerland. He studied politics and art history in Grenoble, France. His photography deals with landscape, architecture and the media. His use of new technologies aims to question the photographic medium through a new poetic approach.

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He has received numerous awards and prizes including the HSBC Fundation for Photography Prize, the No-Limit Prize of the International Festival of Arles (France), first prize by Paris photo and BMW in 2006, and the Arcimboldo prize for Digital Photography in 2009. His work has been exhibited across Europe, the United States and Asia, and belongs in both private and public collections such as the Musée Nicéphore Niépce (F), Musée de l’Elysée (CH), and Fonds National pour l’Art contemporain (F).

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond is a member of the transcontinental network of photographers Piece Of Cake and was featured in the fourth issue of Aint-Bad Magazine.

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Mathieu’s images are other-worldly. Colossal monuments loom quietly in the landscape; eerily reminiscent of the broken industrial complex. He seamlessly integrates constructions into the landscape, drawing the viewer in to examine and further discover it’s idiosyncrasies. Titles expose an alternative motive—unobtrusively questioning our built and natural environment through the eyes of capital agenda.

MBR: I have been working on this project since 2005. I use financial charts and statistics as basic shapes to produce photographic representations of global economic and ecological concerns. The charts have been modeled using 3D software and are then integrated into my landscape photographs. By turning these curves and sculptural shapes into massive constructions—close to memorials, monumental structures—I intend to reach something beyond data. My purpose is to underline their fundamental link to landscape and thus, to human and natural history.

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