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Reference Point@referencepoint180 Points of Reference 006: The Photographic Work of Herve Guibert Herve Guibert’s photographs do not appear as those of a painter or photographer, instead these images originate from the mind of a writer. They are animated objects in space, bodies in bed, waiting, in rest and in reading. In his images, reading is perturbed by hope, or made uncomfortable by the desire for inspiration like the restlessness of wanting. Guibert’s writings and photographs capture his life as a drawn out summer – still, but reverberating with expectation and a sense of longing driven by desire. When we sit with Guibert’s still lives we witness the act of writing as something relative to space, like a fickle love that needs precise conditions to flourish, a theme his work intimately explores. In ‘The Only Face’, a recently published book of his photographs, it is the condition of travel that premises him to take out the camera and document. What emerges is not so much a record of place but one of familiar faces out of context, as if the love he feels for his subjects is amplified by the new surroundings. “Of course I will be out the moment it begins to feel like it is my room, or else it is that I wait until I know something is about to be finished to begin at all, and by then it is too late.” Guibert flirts with questions like a philosopher, but refuses to be confined to a life lived reading and writing alone. Through his images, he is reaching. His work is full of unsent love letters rising out of the will to create - this imagination is more vivid than reality or impending doom. Here the people and the books, the tools for creation and the translation of our thoughts, are revived. The mind reconfigures in a quiet place that holds no continuity, instead only the potential for inspiration.
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