Visual artist and filmmaker Jacques Perconte explores digital materials as one might traverse a landscape, allowing light to penetrate it. His images evoke less a reproduction than a sensation, offering us an impressionistic interpretation of the world. In residence at the Michel Ciry Museum in Varengeville-sur-Mer, he envisions a kind of uncertain garden between land and sea.
From the beginning of his career, Jacques Perconte has been captivated by nature, drawn to its colors and enchantments. A visual artist and filmmaker, he explores digital materials as one might traverse a landscape, allowing light to penetrate it. His images evoke less a reproduction than a sensation, offering us an impressionistic interpretation of the world around us. For three months, the artist was in residence at Varengeville-sur-Mer for a research and production project. Accompanied by Aurélie Giraud, the museum's director, he explored the Bois des Communes, an exceptional site perched atop a cliff overlooking the English Channel, the Clos d’Ailly, the Jardin Bleu, and other key locations in this region, so powerful yet fragile. Jacques Perconte, who already knew Normandy intimately, having filmed it regularly for over 16 years, understands that even if one travels the same path many times, one also learns that no journey is ever truly repeated. And so he returns to film new images: open gardens, flowers in bloom, cool and peaty woodlands. And always, in the distance, one can glimpse the sea and its boundless horizon.
A contemporary art magazine published by Analogues, Semaine focuses on the development of art and exhibitions in time and proposes an approach to art in the making, revealing the extent and diversity of the artistic territory in France today.
Born in Grenoble in 1974, Jacques Perconte lives and works between Rotterdam and Paris. He has been developing an audiovisual and cinematographic body of work in which the environment and landscape are the vehicles of an aesthetic that disrupts vision as much as the technologies it employs. His work moves between cinemas, exhibition spaces and the stage. Although Perconte's works take a variety of forms (linear film, generative film, audiovisual performance, print, installation), they are the result of ongoing experimental research.
