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Cyrille Weiner
Prize winner 2016
“Attracted by the sky lighting up over the forest, I rush off in search of the source of this fluorescent dawn. On the outskirts of the urban world lies the ephemeral world of funfairs, towards which I head with the appetite to find unexpected forms of appropriation.
In the half-light, the eye can hardly perceive what the long exposure time of the camera will reveal. I call on my imagination to anticipate what the scene will offer, playing with the randomness of the device. Recording the light and movement of fairground machinery reveals an urban phantasmagoria. Composed of architectures of the moment, this world exists only after its revelation in the darkness of the room and the long time of the exposure.
From then on, light becomes an artifact, and the obscure foliage gradually becomes impregnated with the light projection in the manner of a photographic film.
By exploring the other side of the stage as one would visit the backstage of a theater or movie set, I seek to evoke the contemporary mythology of the show town and the way in which artificial environments contaminate nature...”
Born in 1976 and a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, Cyrille Weiner lives in Paris. His work has been published by international magazines (M Le Monde, Foam, British Journal of Photography, Artpress, l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Domus...) and exhibited at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Centre de photographie de Lectoure, Rencontres d'Arles, Villa Noailles in Hyères, Galerie Laurent Mueller in Paris.
Cyrille Weiner was awarded the Rodolphe Hervé and Lucien Hervé Prize in 2012. He is the author of Presque île, éditions villa Noailles / archibooks (2009) and twice, éditions 19/80 (2015).
www.cyrilleweiner.com