Philippe RAMETTE

Philippe Ramette is a visual artist and photographer born in 1961 in Auxerre, who lives and works in Paris.

After giving up gave up painting in 1988 when he burned his last workhe turned to photography and sculpture. His work is characterized by theomnipresence of the bodyrepresented in singular situations: figures in suits underwater, in positions where the permanent imbalance. A contrast is created between these seriously dressed figures and these almost comical situations, where the material seems to escape the laws of weightlessness. the laws of weightlessness..

In the works presented for this 2025 selection, it is this imbalance imbalance two sculptures enter into a dialogue with the exhibition space. The first, Éloge du déséquilibre makes bronze, a material renowned for its weight, almost light; the other, Éloge du déséquilibreplays on the contrast between a material a material renowned for its weight, but made light by its casual attitude. The photograph Éloge du pas de côtéis a direct adaptation of a monumental sculpture by the city of Nantes.

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