Hervé Saint-Hélier started his career in 1989. His experience in photography is profoundly connected to his travels. His snapshots transport the observer in the most basic and universal experience of men in transit, men who move. Departure lounge, staircases, view of a hotel swimming pool, taxi abandoning us at the corner of an alley ...
In the impersonality of the city, he underlines the common feeling of our fragile evolution in the middle of the concrete, the thousands of electrical signs: small windows each welcoming different existences. He focuses his attention on the vibration of the light, whether it is cold and blue, hot and incandescent, natural or artificial. He takes note of small details which make us travel with him and dive into the same contemplation as the individual in discovery, the one who paces up and down, and lives in this known and unknown city.
The series ‘‘Voyages Urbains’’, presented at the gallery Géraldine Banier, is one of Hervé Saint-Hélier’s most symbolic series. It was mainly realised from 1997 to 2001 in Tokyo and New York and was presented for the last time in 2008 by Marlborough Gallery, New York City. This timeless series can be rediscovered at the gallery until November 29th.
Voyages Urbains
Hervé Saint-Hélier
November 7th - November 29th 2014