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Bettina David-Fauchier

 «The world of art is not that of immortality, it is

that of the metamorphosis."

André Malraux Les Antimémoires éd. Gallimard 1967

I am less interested in the presentation of a single image that I could select than by certain details that, assembled or juxtaposed, will produce not only another image, but an image where through their confrontations and juxtapositions, through the continuity of their lines, the fragments of architectures or objects, the different textures that constitute them, contribute to the formation of an original image identity.

 I choose and photograph fragments, cast shadows that cut and color the background on which they project by modifying

I make improbable architecural images, geometric and colorful images, I mix color and black and white according to my desires or what seems necessary for the new organized image.

I distort or on the contrary keep intact the original photo, I juxtapose altered images to others that have not been modified.

In fact, I use photography as a painter uses a canvas, colors and brushes, scissors. I cut, I assemble I keep or remove colors; I assemble, I modify until obtaining lines or colors that seem right to me, in any case that correspond to the idea I wanted to achieve.

I do not seek, in most cases, to make images where one can identify the subjects that compose it; some elements can be recognized, others not; what interests me is the result.

                                                                                                            Bettina David-Fauchier (Thanks Jacquie Clark for the translation)

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