Artist photographer Jean-Michel Pouzet presents Variations surjectives at Espace Carnot - Châtelaillon-Plage, an exhibition of contemporary photography featuring minimalist, colorful images.
Espace Carnot - Châtelaillon-Plage | February 9 to 15, 2026
Photographer, author and visual artist Jean-Michel Pouzet presents Variations surjectives, the fifth opus in an artistic approach developed over more than ten years of contemporary photography.
Jean-Michel Pouzet founded the Talasa group in Nantes in the 1970s to promote social photography, and today he is an advocate of plastic photography, free from academic norms. His work explores minimalist, narrative and colorist photography, in which allegorical interpretation plays a central role.
Through a series of large-format photographs, the exhibition presents uncluttered images in vibrant colors, structured by a play of lines and shapes. The objects, photographed in close-up against sky backgrounds, are deliberately diverted from their primary function, losing any objective meaning and giving way to an open, sensitive reading.
Each photograph is accompanied by a text, inviting the visitor to a double reading, visual and narrative. Text and image respond as two inseparable elements of the same work, which the artist likens to a "photographic song". Through the principle of surjectivity, Jean-Michel Pouzet goes beyond reality to deliver a photograph with an intimate expression, somewhere between visual poetry and contemporary expressionism.
Photographer, author and visual artist Jean-Michel Pouzet presents Variations surjectives, the fifth opus in an artistic approach developed over more than ten years of contemporary photography.
Jean-Michel Pouzet founded the Talasa group in Nantes in the 1970s to promote social photography, and today he is an advocate of plastic photography, free from academic norms. His work explores minimalist, narrative and colorist photography, in which allegorical interpretation plays a central role.
Through a series of large-format photographs, the exhibition presents uncluttered images in vibrant colors, structured by a play of lines and shapes. The objects, photographed in close-up against sky backgrounds, are deliberately diverted from their primary function, losing any objective meaning and giving way to an open, sensitive reading.
Each photograph is accompanied by a text, inviting the visitor to a double reading, visual and narrative. Text and image respond as two inseparable elements of the same work, which the artist likens to a "photographic song". Through the principle of surjectivity, Jean-Michel Pouzet goes beyond reality to deliver a photograph with an intimate expression, somewhere between visual poetry and contemporary expressionism.
