Denis Brihat - Photo Cœur d'hibiscus

This heart of hibiscus, with its faded pink hues and velvety softness, is the cradle of a small world: powdery stamens, satiny curves, delicate shadows. Nothing spectacular, everything is restrained, like a confidence between flower and light. The bend gives the image a hushed sensuality, between matter and transparency. It's not just a flower we're looking at, but the very memory of its opening, immortalized by Denis Brihat's talent.

Denis Brihat has devoted his life to exploring the plant world through photography. Settling in Provence in the late 1950s, he developed a singular body of work, combining technical rigor with a poetic eye. His images - onions, tulips, persimmons, kiwis, dead leaves, trees in all seasons... - reveal the intimate structure of living things, magnified by artisanal processes: iron, copper and selenium bends, hand-coloring with gold...

Each photograph is a meditation. Far from the instantaneous gesture, Denis Brihat cultivates slowness, repetition, variation and innovation, without ever breaking the link with nature. This exhibition pays tribute to a great photographer, whose silent work invites us to slow down in order to see better.