Jordan Beal FR, b. 1991
Operating at the crossroads of image and photography, reality and a capture of the imaginary, Jordan Beal’s work blends techniques and materials, situated visions and collective abstractions. Rooted in experimental plastic mastery, the artist manipulates photographic negatives—through submersion, chemical reactions, burial, double exposure, or direct cutting—to reveal their tangible and poetic nature. Crafting new ways of seeing the world, his works explore the present and history, offering a free and powerful perspective on the concepts of nature and territory. New landscapes emerge from the photographic medium, troubled and unsettling horizons often evoking the displacement of bodies and vegetation, natural and political borders, the opacity of waters, islands, seas, and their languages.
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the Caribbean and in French Guiana, and his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions such as To Create the Portrait of a Flower, at Tropiques Atrium National Stage (2022), or Non-Lieux, at Patio19 in 2021 (Fort-de-France, Martinique). In 2023, his work was exhibited in Cayenne during the International Biennial of Photography in French Guiana, discussed in the article Ravissements Guyanais by Éric Karsenty in Fisheye magazine (#63). His series Linéament, winner of the call for applications Prompt: Photography and Generative Image, was presented at Hangar in Brussels in 2025.
