Thibaut Cuisset deploys his photographic work in successive campaigns on various territories: Australia, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Turkey, Brittany, Japan, Pays de Loire. The places are not considered from the point of view of current events but as landscapes shaped by Man and time: urban spaces, outskirts of large cities, cultivated countryside, sea coasts, river plains but also deserts and mountains.
"By articulating as precisely as possible a subject, a light and colors, by a work of elimination and purification, where neither the anecdote, nor the exoticism, the picturesque or the pathos have their place", Thibaut Cuisset seeks to represent in a powerful and discreet way, the essence of the landscape. Relying on soft and restrained colors, he shows that the territory has nothing fixed, that it is the result of history and multiple interventions.
In the exhibition Le Dehors Absolu*, Thibaut Cuisset extends this reflection on Man's environment by showing the first part of a project in progress, entitled "North-South or how to tell a geography by meeting history". The artist intends to confront four territories, two where man is absent, two where he is omnipresent. Iceland (2000) and Namibia (2004) highlight places where man does not usually live. Iceland is a volcanic island, rich in colors, a mineral chaos peeled by the cold, the youngest geological landscape on the planet, a desert in constant motion. In contrast, the Namib Desert, in Namibia, is an immobile desert, considered the oldest and driest on the planet. It is a monotonous and monochrome surface made of rocks, sand dunes, bushes and rare endemic species. After having observed a nature left to itself, Thibaut Cuisset wishes (in the future) to immerse himself in the heart of a city, where the smallest detail is thought by man. He will soon travel to Berlin and Beirut, two capitals whose historical centers have been disrupted by division and destruction.
Anne de Mondenard
