Denis Brihat - Photo Wild Oat

Wild oats can't stand still. Its long edges and disordered curves seem ready to scatter. But here, Denis Brihat suspends it, making it dance within the photographic frame. Each filament becomes a line, a breath of controlled imbalance. His madness is simply the momentum of life, its lightness a form of freedom.

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.