Photographic art: "Bienveillance".
Artist: Jean-Thomas Bédard.
2021, Quebec, Canada.
Theme: Nature.
Technique: digital creation, fusion of several photographs.
Original size : 36 x 24 inches
Reproduction size: 18 x 12 inches / 45.72 x 30 x 48 cm, 24 x 16 inches / 60.96 cm x 40.64 cm and 36 x 24 inches / 91.44 x 60.96 cm.
Dominant colors: Blue, green, yellow.
Hanging system included:
Floating frame
Artist's interpretation of the work:
Hands charged with goodness emerge from primordial matter to bring light and warmth to living beings. This benevolent light enables it to grow and rise towards the sky. The result of a fusion of four photographs taken at different times, Bienveillance expresses the spiritual relationship between man and nature, as well as my belief in a benevolent natural power that cares for life on earth.
Bienveillance - Jean-Thomas Bédard
As an artist and committed environmentalist, Bédard creates exclusively with materials from nature, exploring the variables of an intimate geography that feeds on his sense of belonging to the territory.
For the past decade, he has traveled the shores of the St. Lawrence and its estuary, an emblematic place par excellence that has nourished the Quebecois imagination, to capture its essence. Using the shapes and textures captured on his coastline, the artist-photographer creates imaginary spaces, a kind of metaphor for the ties that humans maintain with their territory.
His work is divided into several series, each characterized by an original visual treatment. They evolve from micro-landscapes to digital collages evoking totemic figures or primitive deities, then turn to the fusion of several images to create a surreal or symbolic world. His vision is poetic and holistic, and his practice seeks to build bridges between nature and humanity. He invites us to transform our gaze from the narrative of human domination over nature to that of a collaborative nature of which human beings are as much a part as all other living beings.