Discover the contemporary work of Jan Pincemaille

Who am I?

I am Jan PINCEMAILLE, I am a poet photosensitive to the world around me, I create photopoetry. I am a digital painter.

I have my photos printed as if they were paintings. I see my work as a photographer as a painter might do with brushes and pigments on his canvas. I am an amateur photographer.

Tymologically the word amateur, in the noble sense of the term is: “one who loves”, one who is interested, who is curious, who practices an activity, ;being guided by pleasure. And that's exactly my case, and I have fun like a child who takes himself seriously. Since 2015, I have carried out aforty exhibition in France and abroad; abroad(in museums, bars, forests or galleries)

How do I do it?

I work at Intuition, I almost always photograph position in macro, without a tripod. I carry out my photographic explorations in industrial wastelands, in cities (I practice Urbex), in these museums, as well as in nature. Always, I am at; on the lookout, traces of time on the material. Indeed, I wish togive meaning to; the work of time.

My favorite playground is rustart. Indeed, rust is a living matter, but in the collective unconscious, it appears as the emblem of rust. The soul of decadence, it is seen as evil, even sickly. Thanks to plays of light, colors, I manage to achieve highlight her worlds, as fantastic as they are poetic.

In my expeditions, I often go alone, as a curious person, I scrutinize the details. And my eye is sharp, it has sharpened. over the years. Thus, I get as close as possible to the material, to its texture. I lean on the light. She always embellishes the subjects she illuminates. And before photographing my subjects, I seek their consent. Once the photo is taken, I thank them for their cooperation. As I approach, I come into great proximity. with them, a sort of intimacy.

I am looking for reveal what I call architexture. Architexture is a portmanteau word that I invented. and which plays with the sonority of words and which encompasses two notions in one. Here, the term “architecture” and that of “texture”. My work is in the visual montage of texture of the photographed object. in aesthetic architectural concept. The abstract object becomes structuring. The abstract texture transforms into a new form of architecture. It is that of the imaginary and the subjective.

Whether with rust, plastic, saltpeter, frost or clouds, I enter into the material with art and manner. And through this approach, through these fragments, these details, these fractals, I bring out characters, landscapes… like so many other possible worlds. Personally, I think God is in the details. And so I go to His search in the infinitely small. In this microcosm, light reveals what is hidden. My camera is a kind of microscope. With him, I perform a real magic trick, I go from the invisible to the visible. My cursors, without being chemical, serve as developers. It’s alchemy.

Everyone can therefore appropriate the work and project their own interpretations onto it. In this sense the work escapes me, it belongs to me. the one or at; the one who looks at it, who deciphers it and gives it its meaning. It’s a fabulous gift for an exhibitor to watch a spectator make a work their own.

My work is research… I want to give meaning to; the work of time.

Là where all we see is a damaged wall, cracks of rust or strata of saltpeter, a whole universe opens up for me.

I collect fragments of the world and capture thearchitexture of its texture; a reality new, beauty of a dreamed painting which comes to transfigure the raw world.

I enjoy capturing simple nature in its reflections, its transparencies, its luminance. These are branches, fine strips which seem to reach towards the sky.

I love recreating reality. with the new eye of the poet who sees what the world no longer sees. In this state of mind, I set out to achieve this goal. transcend darkness into beauty bright. In my photographic work, the flat areas become deep, my subjects seem to be in suspension, in movement. They become alive, vibrant.

Thanks to; using fairly powerful software, I knead the image, tweaking it and smoothing its pixels. I don't touch anything the structure of the image itself, but I push the sliders to the extreme. So, I play with tones, saturation, luminance, opacity, temperatures, blacks and whites, colors, contrasts, sharpness... The very vast palette of tools , I use it everywhere. what you want: digital brushes, erasers, geometric deformations, image reversals, filters...In two words, it's digital alchemy!

Since 2015, I have carried out around forty exhibitions in France and abroad. abroad (in museums, bars, forests or galleries).