Jean-Marie Fadier

Jean-Marie Fadier is an French photographer and plastician born in 1958 in Paris.

Fadier's photographic resarch revisits traditional argentic processes. His pictorial experiments highlight the sublety of the interactions of physical components constitutive of photographic techniques. Thus he saves on the camera and the photographic object to create what he calls an "Argentype", a sort of photogram without referent.
It is this new problematic of the image that gives his work its originality.
From this technique shapes are created that the artist calls : "mental landscapes".

Fadier puts in place a poetic language using a personal grammar and syntax at the time when argentic photography seems to be arriving at the end of its life.
His pictorial production is at the meeting point of light, paper, silver-salt, the developer, the fixer and water. Fadier invites us to travel with him in these "minifique" monochrome landscapes and leads us to what we call in psychoanalysis the process of recognition.

The poesy of the shape and its powerful evocative capacity reactivates and stimulates our imaginations and gives to this works of art a universal character that some may qualify as dreamlike.

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