AM Art Films
Paris, 2020

Beyong visible

Mustapha Azeroual

Trees, a forest, a lake...The photographer Mustapha Azeroual captures what the eye cannot see, the ‘sensible’.

About

Synopsis

Trees, a forest, a lake... The photographer Mustapha Azeroual captures what the eye cannot see, the ‘sensible’. In his studio, as a sculptor or a painter would, he uses old materials to produce works that offer new horizons to the viewer.

The artist

Mustapha Azeroual was born in 1979 in Tours (37). A photographer, he lives and works in Paris and Casablanca. He is represented by the Binôme gallery, Paris.

Technical data

Director
Jean-Marc Gosse
Cinematographer
Eric Genillier
Editor
Isabelle Pires
Music composer
Jérôme Vassereau
Duration05:38
Selections & Festivals
Le FIFA 2021 Festival International du Film d'Art

Montréal, Canada

MOFA 2021 Master of Art Film Festival

Sofia, Bulgaria

Chronicle

"Beyond Visible" is the name chosen for this film by its director, Jean Marc Gosse, immediately establishing photographer Mustapha Azeroual’s field of artistic investigation. If the action of light and the sun forms the basis of what we can see, its power of action remains invisible. The artist juxtaposes this physical source with the possibilities of the photographic medium by turning its direct action on matter into works of art. With his "Monads" series, objects in phosphorescent colours appear under the impact of light, revealed by quick flashes on emulsioned paper. The pigments of colour become the sensors, the revelators of the luminous forces present. As abstract as it seems, the process deployed by Azeroual actually gives shape to the light that surrounds us. By filtering it, by absorbing it on a photosensitive surface, he conjures up an entire spectrum of colours that exceeds the visible domain (and which cannot be synthesized by the dazzled eye alone). It is these experiments conducted by the artist, to the point of blindness, that Jean Marc Gosse calls to mind by using infra-red imagery for his film. The saturation that punctuates the soundtrack also does its bit to express the transgression of sensory limits, the inaudible echoing the invisible.

Marguerite Pilven

A graduate in philosophy and art history, Marguerite Pilven is an art critic and curator and a member of the AICA. Since 2015, she has broadened her scope to include writing outreach and communication documents for various institutions (accompanying notes for works of art, exhibition booklets, texts presenting artistic projects, books on art and publications of multiple...) As a press manager, she writes and creates information materials for the visual arts, which she distributes to journalists and art professionals (critics, curators, influencers, etc.).
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