Jérôme Bryon

After graduating from the DEFA d’Architecture in 1996 and the École des Gobelins in Paris in 1998, Jérôme Bryon quickly became a still-life photographer for a number of magazines, and produced his first personal series. Influenced by both architecture and Russian constructivism, Bryon is initially haunted by images with structured lines. From his earliest series, he established a photographic camera work style, concentrating on detail and its abundance, to the point of creating images where the viewer loses himself in a fragmented “all over”.

Already in the 98% series of 2004, the foundations of his work have been laid. Far from conceptual or performative considerations, Jérôme Bryon uses protocols to “take the time to see better”. Over a period of three years, he undertook ten one-week sojourns in the Alps, with the aim of rediscovering the essence of the satisfaction felt when facing the mountains. He composes with what he calls “the density of matter”. With a more constructivist approach, Jérôme Bryon wrests his everyday, anodyne “sculptures” from reality, isolating them to better reveal their structural potential, their abstract reality.

In the series that followed, Posture, Windows, Sous-Œuvre and Grand Sud, the composition of the image asserts itself and the abstract constructions are confirmed. Photographing hotel rooms costing less than €40, house interiors, building sites and shopping malls, Bryon observes and transforms form into subject, turning the banal into the exceptional.

With the Sous-Paysages serie dating from 2024, Jérôme Bryon returns to the immensity of the mountains and once again turns his attention to raw material, playing with lines and scales, making the invisible visible.

Finally, isn’t detail the main subject of Jérôme Bryon’s work? Saturday April 12 4pm – 7pm in the presence of the artists