Xavier Blondeau

During his travels, discovering the vastness of desert lands, Xavier Blondeau wonders about the place of the individual in his environment. In order to materialize his questions, he turns to photography. This allowed him in 2009, in parallel with his activity as a teacher-researcher, to resume this photographic work around the individual. 

Through his series, he is looking for more and more intimate answers. His approach remains instinctive although he decides to structure his work, while moving towards a certain aesthetic form very pure. Only emotion drives him, and this is how he navigates from abstraction where he explores intimacy to the very graphic representation in order to link this imaginary to reality. 

His photographs always leave a certain uncertainty in the air, pushing the public to reinterpret through their eyes what the photographer offers them as an answer to his research... 

Since 2011, Xavier Blondeau has been very active and has been exhibiting a series of shows. His work reveals him through his different photographic series. 

Selected exhibitions : Galerie Courcelles Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2020); Lille Art'UP, Lille, France (2020); Tokyo International Foto Awards, Okinaya, Japan (2020); MIA Photo Fair, Milan, Italy (2019); Lille Art'UP, Lille, France (2019); Tokyo International Foto Awards, Tokyo, Japan (2019); Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, USA (2018); Fotovefer, Paris, France (2018); Barcelona International Photography Awards, Barcelona, Spain (2018); SE Center Photography, Greenville, USA (2018); Galerie L'Angle, Hendaye, France (2018); ...