Michel Bousquet

Michel Bousquet hesitated for a long time between painting and photography. Like studio painters, he enjoys the possibilities for composition, superimpositions, and retouching that such a permanent workplace allows: in the studio, time is not compressed into a decisive instant. This is certainly the reason for his initial choices: still life and interiors.
The photographs taken outdoors are brought back to the studio where they often become notes, material of reality which will be juxtaposed with interior constructions.
In 2011, about his series Mal Placé, Michel Bousquet said: " ...I freed myself from the obligation of the subject and I realized that I was interested in forms and compositions which, for me, became almost abstract. I was making images and at the same time it seemed to me that I was taking notes. I thought of Atget* who said he made 'documents for artists' and I said to myself that some of my images could be documents for artists, but for an abstract painter. "
*Jean Eugène Auguste Atget, French photographer, 1857-1927.

Some dates

• 2019 Villa de Guelma - work in reference to George Braque's visit to the studio now occupied by Michel Bousquet. Curated by Michèle Cohen, La Non-Maison Art Center in Aix-en-Provence.
• 2018 Habiter - Mac Arteum museum, Châteauneuf le Rouge: Attempt to convert a 9.5 m2 room into a residential workshop.
• 2014 Aérotrain - series produced as part of 'France(s) Territoire Liquide', a photographic mission on French territory.
• 2012 Badly Placed - Polaroid series, correspondence with Christine Ollier (Gallery of the Daughters of Calvary).
• 2003 It's not me - series of portraits questioning identity and adoption September of photography, Lyon.
• 1999 Being 20 in Beirut (Ed.Alternatives).