7YTHTS
Stemming from the convergence of phôs (light) and graphein (to write), photography embodies the aspiration to capture the visible in a trace whilst simultaneously revealing its fragility. The works from the series 7YTHTS (7 years…) explore light as an unstable, yet fundamental and fragile material, and question the visible in its precariousness. The series affirms a practice of resistance against immediacy, in which photography rediscovers a slow and reflective temporality.
This exploration, adopted from the Impressionist painters—for whom light was never a fixed quantity but a constantly changing phenomenon—extends the moment of perception into possible fictions rather than certainties. Based on fragmentation, echo and association, it rejects immediacy in favour of a slow, reflective temporality. The series creates a non-linear space for interpretation, in which meaning emerges from the relationships between the images, the tensions and the moments of stillness. Each photograph thus presents itself as an autonomous space for thought, whilst at the same time forming part of a whole that reflects both reality and its own doubts. The photographs appear as projection surfaces upon which perception, memory and interpretation converge. They draw the viewer into a sensory and reflective experience – an active experience of the gaze.
Biography
A photographer trained at the École supérieure de l’image Le 75 (Brussels) and a graduate with honours from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles, Armand Quetsch examines the fragility of the visible and the construction of meaning through the image. His work explores the tension between memory, territory and the gaze, championing a poietic and fragmentary approach to photography. He has exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles, the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), the Casino Luxembourg and Les Brasseurs (Liège). His publications, notably *ephemera*, *dystopian circles / fragments... all along* (Peperoni Books) and *Nickla* (CNA), further his reflection on the image as both trace and fiction.
Exhibition views © Cité de l'image / Hype / CAL