"If you like heritage, history, travel, freedom, adventure, you will certainly appreciate my images of a dream world, built, staged from scratch. I build, I assemble, I frame. My photographs are stagings of my motionless journeys. The square format does not refer to the landscape, and for good reason, as a visual artist I compose, I color, I assemble planes, verticals, horizontals, blurs, light. I create an autonomous world that sometimes borders on abstraction. I draw inspiration from my many trips to the Mediterranean, but I also appreciate Asian architecture. The island fortress of Murud janjira on the Arabian Sea has quite inspired me, but my daily source of inspiration is the Mediterranean space."
Gaspard de Gouges lives and works in Nîmes, France. He is a graduate of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Passionate about travel, he has traveled the five continents with his camera to collect urban or natural landscapes. In the early 2000s, he began to paint large format figurative canvases, group portraits. Since 2021 he has devoted himself to photography, which has become a game for him, a kind of motionless journey.
"I started photographing staged scenes when I was 10 years old, with very realistic toys and models that I built with stalks of dry grass, or I used metal vehicles. For a long time I wanted photographing islands, for their dreamlike power. Their existence plunges us into an elsewhere. I imagined them to be tropical, but it was on mineral and Mediterranean islands that I finally set my sights. My approach is to create stagings , artificial but plausible, realistic landscapes. I create imaginary worlds, sometimes containing ruins, at least rocks which sometimes make me think of fortresses. These landscapes surprise me and always give me a lot of pleasure to create."
