EVE, LA MONTAGNE ET LA JEUNE FILLE
Thomas Klotz

Texts by Sophie Letourneur et Berard Plossu

Thomas Klotz recalls childhood and the anxieties that come with it, by referencing his twelve-year-old daughter, Eve. Devoid of narrative dimension, this implicit portrait takes shape through anonymous images, "punctuation exercises," where walls, volumes, materials, voids colors and shadows are all surfaces of projection as a silent inventory.
In counterpoint, the full-length photograph of the young girl, with her eyes pointed at her father / the objective, marks a frontal return to the human figure in the artist's work, which still tends toward a sort of pictorial abstraction. This portrait combines a certain number of visual reminiscences, incarnating childhood, resurgence of the floral motif and of the color yellow, golden, which, from a certain, metaphorical point of view, refers to the ephemeral character of nature and, by extension, to this transitory age "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.". Thomas Klotz shows "secret passages," and "ghosts", and finds coherence in these mysterious affinities, these underground connections, which are in fact specific to his daughter’s world.

Edition spéciale

Cette édition spéciale limitée est composée d’un coffret fait à la main contenant le livre ainsi qu’un tirage signé et numéroté au choix 18 × 24 cm
Tirage sur Baryta Hahnemühle 315g

Edition de 20 pour chacun des 2 tirages.

Bio

Thomas Klotz lives and works in Paris.
Fascinated by American colorists, he stood out with a first book Northscape published by Eyd in 2019, an urgent and pictorialist pilgrimage in north of France, while his father was dying. His second book, Eve, la montage et la jeune fille,  is a tale about fragility and anxieties of a young girl. In this whole story of photographs with lines, spaces, angles - her daughter, the daughter of the author of the photographs, who is there, looking like she is waiting. It seems simple, but it speaks of presence in the places, therefore a poetry of expectation

Exhibitions

- Justice, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris
- I’ll never be young again, Galerie Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
- Northscape, Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris

Press

Libération
Bjp 1854
Télérama
Les Inrockuptibles
France fine art
Vision(s)
The introspect collective
Fisheye magazine