Discover the contemporary work of Pierre Baudais

At the beginning, discreetly, there are the roots, unconscious, our little story, personal, integrated.

Grains of artists, we were 20 years old. We wanted to dance with the greatest.

Picasso, Duchamp, Malevich, Bacon, Godard, Artaud, Tzara and so many others. We had written a manifesto, called "Bubu". We wanted to be neo-dadaists.

It was to say that it has become impossible to produce new forms without relying on the work of predecessors, all the territories having already been explored, colonized.

Abstract, how to go further than "white square on white background"? And how to go behind Duchamp? Play a note without referring to Armstrong or Bach?

Boxing the dead - it chains us.

And then time passes. We finish our studies, we find jobs, we fall in love, we move forward on the path of life. And the dreams of twenty years slip away. At first we forget them for a moment, for a moment only, and then slowly the shore moves away, the layers sediment. To disappear. The course has changed.

I took the road of the camera and the audiovisual. I worked as a camera operator and as a video editor. For television, for cinema, corporate films, a little for advertising too. In 2014 I made my first feature film. We're already getting a little closer.

And at the same time, I continued my photographic work, looking for something new, in the colors, in the treatments, even in the speed, the blur of the shutter really appeals to me.

The mind is like plate tectonics. It's happening underneath.

The idea of overprinting was already there, dormant.

By mistake I had reloaded a roll of film already exposed and shot on it. Without having any idea what I was doing at that moment.

When I discovered the shots I was quite surprised, but there was one absolutely fascinating image.

Fantastic coincidence. I was fascinated. Somewhere along the way, there had been an accident. And there it was. Harmless.

It was the same person, in the same room - her kitchen - seen from two different angles, like heads in a deck of cards, and in two different times. There were two space-times united on the same support. And two space-times that could speak to each other, respond to each other, a meeting that made sense and created a third space. The whole became more than the sum of its parts.

The veil was torn. In the distance, I had caught the nuances, the shapes, the flavors, the smells. Nothing precise but there was something there, for sure! Until now when I filmed or photographed I always knew in advance what I was going to see when I arrived. When you film a face, you see it - you already know what it looks like.

What I discovered at that moment is that it is the surprise, The joy of discovery, that is the key.