Matthieu Marre
Selected works
Photography
I look, photographing with my hands.
Thinking doesn't help.
Forget the eyes.
The horizon of language is insufficient to lay bare the strange skein of our lives. The word and the thing merge. In photography, I hope to reach something else. Some kind of accident, at the moment of shooting, developing or printing. Like a crack that no longer has a name, but of which we keep a trace and which says. The project is always the same: that of an improbable elucidation. "Each of us speaks only one sentence, which only death can interrupt" (Barthes quotes a colleague).
So I look for the terms of this sentence in the images my camera produces. It's a search for a mythological narrative, if myth were a final truth cradling our existence, its ultimate narrative.
Born in 1980 in Cahors, France. Matthieu Marre studied anthropology, with a particular focus on death. His photography takes a stand against finitude, while seeking to pay tribute to the poetry of existence. He sees himself as resisting the noise that disturbs the essential. The intimate is his place of expression, as a framework for what animates each and every one of us.
Matthieu lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Matthieu Marre
