Gregoire Alexandre at Atelier de Mecanique

Paris-based photographer Gregoire Alexandre is currently exhibiting a selection of his work at the Atelier de Mecanique, in Parc des Ateliers.  Christian Lacroix, a guest curator of the Recontres d’Arles 2008, chose to feature Alexandre, whose work he describes as “contemporary poetry” in the latest issue of Wallpaper. 

Alexandre has chosen from photographs taken between 2002 and 2008, the majority of which are the result of commissions from fashion, design, and music projects. The exhibit features no captions, titles or dates, leaving visitors to take each image at face value.

According to Atelier de Mecanique:

Gregoire Alexandre’s photographs are fuelled by a set of constraints that generate a highly fertile context conducive to the emergence of new worlds.  Here we find pared-down spaces in which reality merges with abstraction, dialectical/paradoxical games with a marked fantastic side to them and narratives for which we do not quite possess the keys.

While that description is above this writers head, the images are in fact quite beautiful and thought provoking.  The exhibition is being shown through September 14th.