Matthieu Litt BE, b. 1983
Since his early days in photography, Matthieu Litt has never ceased to question our relationship with the world. His first series explored the interactions between humans and the landscape. Over time, his research opened up more widely to the spectrum of the living. Photography then became the author's means of observing the complex weave of links that weave themselves between beings. Convinced of the reconstructive power of photography, he uses it to try to restore the fractured link between humans and their environment.
In taking this path, Matthieu Litt gradually frees himself from the documentary dimension of his medium, in favour of a resolutely poetic perspective.
It is through his eminently plastic treatments that his work reflects the fragility of our ecosystems.
In Terra Nullius, where the artist captures a polar landscape in full metamorphosis, the approach is more suggestive than frontal. It is the unreal rendering of colours, the overexposure, the changes in scale and the superimposition of views that, by gradually dissolving the images into abstraction, evoke the decay of suffering glaciers. The sublime spectacle of the disaster to come is deliberately indeterminate, as Matthieu Litt consciously blurs the spatial and temporal contours of his subjects.
Even when the issue is more clearly situated, as in the Oasis series, which takes root in the Ry-Ponet park in the Liège region, the photographer blurs the lines. In essence, Oasis seeks to sketch out a space of utopian and experimental projections that go far beyond a geographical reality.
More interested in recreating an aesthetic experience than in capturing a subject, the photographer inscribes the different territories he explores in a sensitive and poetic cartography. In so doing, he strives day after day to renew our sense of belonging to the world.
