Arnaud Claass
"Photographies : 1968-1995"

Arnaud Claass has developed over more than 25 years works that appear, in the uniqueness of his photographic experience, as a point of reference of French creation.

Through different articulated series, this work reveals a complex relation, intertwined to the time of photographic vision and to the intimacy of the environment which he chooses to portray.

From "Contretemps" to the series entitled "Précaire", Arnaud Claass has ceaselessly enriched the accomplishment of a project in which the photographic image finds its meaning not through the object it shows, but based on the object which serves as its constituting element. Inversion of a process, photography for Arnaud Claass is no longer the extension of sight, nor is it a means of translation of a personal mythology, it becomes this mental thing, this tool for meditation of time and of the world, which reveals the constant move of the artist and his capacity for action in the space of appearance.

This exhibit was presented by the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, April - June 1996.