Series of giclees on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290g paper mounted on Dibond, dimensions 24 x 36 and 48 x 72 cm, 2025. HD film with sound, 10’25, directed and music by Thierry Fournier, 2023-2025.
Representations of plants are most often two-dimensional: herbariums, botanical drawings, photographs, etc. The Lacunes project proposes to approach the representation of flowers as organisms, considering their space and physicality.
The flowers are scanned in 3D using a photogrammetry device: around 200 photographs are taken of each flower, from which a program reconstructs a 3D model, from which the Lacunes images are then extracted without retouching. These images are flat in turn, but they can be taken from any angle in the 3D model.
However, the inability of this device to reproduce all the details of the flowers, particularly the areas hidden from the lens, generates gaps, which the program compensates for by creating interpolations of shape and color. A pictorial gesture then appears, in the signature of the algorithm and its own limitations in representing reality.
This is where the gaps that give the project its title appear: the limits of the machine’s vision, but also those of human vision. These flowers become three-dimensional organisms, in a vision that is both highly detailed and uncertain, raising the question of their corporeality.
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Lacunes is linked to the place and the project Commune présence curated in the Perche area by Juliette Fontaine and Thierry Fournier. Production of prints: Biennale Siana – Printing: Studio Aza – 3D: Thomas Gendre.
Thierry Fournier, Lacunes, inkjet prints on Canson art Gloss (excerpts) © Thierry Fournier / ADAGP
Thierry Fournier, Lacunes, exhibition view, SIANA 2025 © Thierry Fournier / ADAGP
