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visual artist and photographer
Chrystèle Lerisse
Welcome
«Chrystèle Lerisse's work, based on the small black and white format, has an intensity rarely achieved with silver photography, unless you refer to the great names in the history of art, Moholy-Nagy, Strand or Leiter to name but a few. It also draws on the history of modern painting and cinema. But above all it achieves an unequalled synthesis of the plastic revolutions that these references imply. By working on objects and places that are a priori universal, she produces works that are completely new, highly coherent with each other, impossible to classify or reduce to any notion of genre whatsoever. (...). Chrystèle Lerisse's work will prove decisive in the history of contemporary photography, in terms of the history of art».»
Jérôme Felin art historian, art advisor for Normandy, 2008
Testimonials
«One of the motifs of Lerisse's work is to make us see simple, ordinary things that we don't really see, paradoxically under the worst possible conditions: small black and white formats in which the grey, the blurred, the confusion of forms, the hold of black and the framing all undermine the appearances of reality. In other words, you can't see much at first. You have to adapt.»
Geneviève Breerette in mission Lerisse -le tour de France des vaches- (in French)Editions Artboretum & Artzo, 2015
«Vassivière, 11 April 2004. First encounter with an image by Chrystèle Lerisse: a black image, where at first I see almost nothing but this tiny black square. Then my eyes got used to it and I could make out something.»
Jean Paul Chavent, in de grâce, that step into absence in which everything remainsbaudoin lebon éditeur, 2005
«Chrystèle Lerisse's work is not prose, or even poetry, but poetics, poetry in action that reflects.‘
Jérôme Felin, in A-Proposéditions Artzo, 2019