Alix Delmas — Portfolio — Slash Paris

Alix Delmas’ work confronts us with a common space, which we share with the artist. Space apprehended from another angle of perception and sensation, space rendered poetic for some, deconstructed space for others, in all cases enriched. The strength of his work, therefore, lies largely in its unexpected character. No obsession, but one, paths. Routes, crossing of form, of meaning… Capturing an effect. Capturing a moment. Capturing an affect. Capturing a landscape, a territory. Art as a form of predation diverted, softly?

D 106, Gelatines in landscape, Sisters, Jetlag paradiso or Bloody Sea

The D 106, Landscape Gelatin, Sisters, Jetlag paradiso or Bloody Sea images offer captures that use the characteristics of the color filter and its direct consequences on the pattern photographed during shooting. The gelatin offers a play of transparency, opacity, polarization, reflections and areas of humidity. The process offers the theatricality of artifice, the pictoriality of a « background ». It is as if the landscape itself has lost its sharpness and the photograph bears the trace of a degradation. It is as much a mental landscape, a metaphor on the border as the fragility of an ecosystem.

Line of Lives, 2020
The handrail of Ligne de Vies will cross one of the alleys of the Municipal Health Centre of Ivry-sur-Seine thanks to the presence of five arches. The cut and the rhythm of the proposal have been designed based on an electrocardiogram of a healthy heart. The hand of the patient (or visitor) using the handrail is « assisted » sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left. This gesture, however discreet, is essential. The handrail in its evocation is « accompanying » and attempts aesthetically and symbolically to evoke a caress, a care, a crutch that will have to be let go to resume it later. The arches are doors that mark thresholds, step.

Between, 2019
The photographic research ENTRE is a reflection on how to occupy space in the presence of others, which since the migratory crisis, the control of the flow and the health crisis is one of the markers of political identity.