Benoît Lefeuvre is a visual artist based in Paris. He is interested in the way memory is shaped by the flow of time. He visually transcribes this invisible movement that escapes human perception through photography. Working from photosensitive materials, whose chemical agents have decomposed naturally or through manipulation, he transforms and sculpts this memory medium. Abstractions evoking natural or dreamlike landscapes are then revealed. These refer to marine and geological universes whose point of view and scale disturb our perception. These materializations translate an autonomous process like the erosion of reefs by the sea.

The exhibition GARDEN PARTY brings together a collection of works by Benoît Lefeuvre. In his series L'île d'Her, he explores the impact of time on our perceptions of the world, focusing on the island of Her as a place of memory and metaphor for remembrance. The images presented, produced by old silver halide films, reveal arrangements of abstract colors and textures that evoke the invisible organic movement of things, highlighting the autonomous life of matter and provoking a poetic contemplation of the ephemeral. His diptych Seascapes is similar to satellite shots of the coastline, which were created from blank film sculpted in corrosive liquids. Originally intended to capture reality, the photosensitive emulsion is here worked by an autonomous subtractive process. The results reveal an imaginary cartography between sky and sea.