Bram van VELDE

Original black and white photographic portrait of Bram Van Velde by Marc Trivier. Portrait of artist, of anonymous figure, of madman, of slaughterhouse or of tree: Marc Trivier photographed each subject with the same interrogative intensity. All realized in the same square format, elementary and closed, without retouching or cropping, the photographs seem less to stage a subject - famous or unknown, elected or fallen, living or dead - than to question a presence. "What interested me was not simply to photograph a body or a face, but that particular situation which is someone in the process of taking a photo of someone else." Trivier strips the work of its effects and reveals the enigmatic nu