“Philippe Boissonnet proposed to change our perception of the Earth, from Mother Earth to Child Earth, as if it were a being we carry inside us and must look after. We are aware of our impact upon the world, but what Boissonnet awesomely expresses […] is the world’s impact upon us”.

(Annick Bureaud, L’extrémité au cœur: (se) connecter (avec) les Pôles, dans le catalogue : “Sur Polar : Arte en Antartida”, Buenos Aires : ed. UNTREF, 2008. Translated by Estudio Lucille Barnes )

See also section “PERFORMANCES” (more photo works)

PAYSAGE-MONDE III (Faire face)
2023

3 digital printings on interlaced lenticular network . Acrylic film mounted on Alu-Dibond. 18 x 105 inches (46 x 266 cm). Edition 1/1. Alter Ego production).

This triptych in lenticular photography comes from capturing ephemeral luminous moments, facing a rocky wall. Confronting both is a way to draw attention to the idea about ​​the fragile beauty of our natural environment and, simultaneously, to the importance of facing positivly its possible disparition in our collective contemporary feelings. In this metamorphic composition, I interlaced photo images obtained by projecting solar light, diffracted and polarized, through a dichroic film. See also the video-poem à https://youtu.be/J5DvXN6lErk

(Created during Nat Art Residency, in Tagle, Spain, 2022- © Philippe Boissonnet - Support technique: Alter Ego Productions, Laval, Qc)

PAYSAGE-MONDE II (Monitoring)
2023

Digital printing on cylindrical lenticular network (process by interlacing). Triptych mounted on Alu-Dibond. 28 x 114 inches (71 x 290. cm) Edition 1/1. Softmotion production).

Water, plastic and light are the main ingredients used to create the source images of this triptych, by using a direct Copy-Art process. These prints obtained at MIDE (Cuenca, Spain) in the 90s were then digitally interlaced on a lenticular acrylic support. The lenticular process, with its blurs, its slight illusion of depth and its effects of metamorphosis, creates a perceptual ambiguity. “Paysage-Monde II” hopes to give a vision that is strange, even disturbing, of the geopolitical image of our changing world. A moving cartography in a metamorphic world, colorful and eye pleasant, but unstable and furtive

Series HOLOSCAPES (Illuminating the World) …
2022

Ink-jet prints on acide-free paper (345 x 112 cm ou 136 x 44 po)

A photo series resulting from an artist-in-residency (Nat Art) carried out in Spain (Cantabria) in June 2022. Revealing micro-landscapes, where light can unfold and illuminate our perception of our planetary world whose natural environment is slowly deteriorating. My “Holoscapes” photo series are like a sort of antidote to our era of planetary eco-anxiety. Trying to track ephemeral luminous moments that bring attention to the inevitable encounter of all living existence with what is fragile and transitory, in our apparent solid and permanent world. So, "Holoscape (Lighting up the world)" is for me a way of returning to human life basis, through an awareness of Earth being cared inside oneself, in its holistic global balance.

See the intent, photos and video-poem on their web site at https://www.circleproart.com/en-gb/philippe-boissonnet

HOLOSCAPES (Revealing the World) Series
2018 - 2020

Digital inkjet prints on Verona paper (limited edition 3/3 - 20 x 20 pouces)

Photographic captations from holographic optical elements (HOE) placed in outdoor spaces so as to diffract sunlight. “HOLOSCAPES (Revealing the World)” is an attempt to re-enchant the way we look at our, natural environment, even at a small scale. Through this simple gesture, I create small, ephemeral and elusive luminous phenomena allowing the appearance of subtle rainbows depending on the position of the sun. This series marks the start of a new research closer to the terrestrial world, further from satellite images I was used to. The choice of this luminous medium highlights the importance of the fragile balance of the world which lies at our feet and before our eyes, and about which we must not forget to coexist despite all the surrounding eco-anxiety.

THERE WAS A GARDEN …
2022

Temporary installation presented along the Parc Lambert (Trois-Rivières, Qc). A project sponsored by Fondation Trois-Rivières Durable and Culture Trois-Rivières. Terrestrial globes have been digitally printed on 15 fabrics while the 3R acronym (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle) has been printed by wood engraving process. This installation presented in summer 2022 at Parc Lambert (Trois-Rivières, Qc) pays tribute to a terrestrial habitat to be proudly protected globally. .

PAYSAGE-MONDE I (Polarization)
2021

Photodigital print on cylindrical lenticular material (interlaced images at 40 Lpi)
Mounted on Alu-Dibond. 23 x 36 pouces (25 x 38 po. framed). Édition 2/2 (Production AlterEgo)

This animated lenticular photograph uses the evanescence and visual instability of the process to stage with ambiguity the conventional and limited point of view of our cartographic representation of the world, seen from the historical domination of the north over the south. The composition is the result of a pairing between two photographs of a sunny sky created from a holographic film of optical diffraction (HOE) and a linear drawing of the planetary planisphere. By superimposing this mapping on the holographic diffraction images, I repeated and inverted this shape twice: thus, in one of the final images used for the lenticular interlacing, the northern hemisphere is placed at the top (north). In the other, the hemisphere is reversed, upside down, and takes the place of the southern hemisphere.

Exhibition view at CNE, Jonquière, Qc (january-april 2022)

LIAISONS POLAIRES / Polar Liaisons, Series
2012

Three inkjet digital prints on vinyl canvas
86 x 106 cm each, ed. 1/1

Photo-performances in collaboration with Lorraine Beaulieu

L'ÉTRANGE LÉGÈRETÉ DU MONDE (II) / This Strange Lightness of the World (II)
2012

Installation in an urban public space, 15 inkjet prints on fabric (flags), 15 brackets and one inkjet print on adhesive vinyl (on the ground). Presented within the Montreal subways’ undergrounds (Complexe Guy Favreau), as part of Montréal Art Souterrain.

Exhibition: L'ÉTRANGE LÉGÈRETÉ DU MONDE (installations photo-vidéo-holographique)
2010

Maison de la culture Côte-des-neiges, Montréal, Qc

TRAVERSER LE MONDE / Crossing the World (I, II, II)
2008-2009

Inkjet photo prints on canvas and on backlit film, black Plexiglass and neons
Photograph on canvas: 100 x 76 cm

Collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mont St-Hilaire, Mont St-Hilaire, Qc

LE DÉSENCHANTEMENT D'ATLAS / The Desenchantment of Atlas, Series
2007-2008

While I was on the Antarctic Peninsula (Marambio Base, 2007), I truly felt myself on the extreme edge of the world and images of the mythological character of Atlas came to mind. All of these photographic images forge a metaphor for how the space of our collective imagination is currently occupied (or should be occupied) by the awareness of our planetary limits from one pole to another, where global warming currently has the greatest impact.

Inkjet prints on canvas, ed. 2/2

CP/TOMS - TOTAL OZONE for Jan. 3
2006-2007

This series of photographies have been produced with the complicity of Andrea Juan, while being at Marambio Argentine Base with its researchers crew in geoclimate. Those portarits are related to how we should be impacted in our counciousness with each parts of the World and more particularly by our human activities on t6he poles. This art piece is a preview about my own experience of Antarctica, while being there at Marambio (2007).

Eight inkjet prints on canvas and graphite wall drawing
Installation: 240 x 240 cm (61 x 91 cm each), ed. 2/2

Collection Arte en Antartida, Buenos Aires, Argentina

O-ZONES Series
2005 - 2009

Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle paper, ed. 3/3

LE SEPTIÈME JOUR / The Seventh Day, Series
1992-1995

Seven colour photographs (from original canon laser photocopies) mounted on Foamboard. Unique print (1/1). Wooden framed.
Approx. 271 x 142 cm

The luminous images made from a practice in Copy Art were created while an artist-in-residency stay at the Museo Internacional de Electrographia (Cuenca, Spain - 1992). I then superimposed, on a Canon Laser photocopier glass, a transparent inflatable globe with a projection of an incandescent light. Performing on top of the cover glass changed the reading of the colors of the neon during the direct printing of the image on paper. Afterwards, silver-processed photographs were then made from a selection of 7 images to create this mural. For this piece, I purposely made a reference to the Biblic creation of the World, in seven days. Nonethless, I wanted to suggest an inversion between beginning and ending of the sequence. A possible disparition towards a kind of Big Bang…

IL SERAIT UNE FOIS...
1993-2021

Installation 1993 (version 1): mirror, 2 tripods, light and colour bubble-jet photocopy mounted on Plexiglass

Installation 2021 (version 2): mirror with holographic grating film, 2 tripods, DEL lights (red, blue, orange) and colour bubble-jet photocopy mounted on Plexiglass
Approx. 200 x 300 x 180 cm