Benoît Lefeuvre is a visual artist based in Paris. He is interested in how memory is shaped by the passage of time. He visually transcribes this invisible movement, which escapes human perception, through photography. Working with photosensitive materials, whose chemical agents have decomposed naturally or through manipulation, he transforms and sculpts this repository of memory. The result is abstractions evoking natural or dreamlike landscapes. These reference marine and geological worlds whose perspective and scale disrupt our perception. These materializations convey an autonomous process, much like the erosion of reefs by the sea.

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