ABSTRACT VIBRATIONS

 

Didier Fournet held his first camera in his hands as a teenager in Paris. After a long career as an Artistic Director for major international advertising groups, the image has remained at the core of his life and practice. 
 

 

ARTISTIC APPROACH
 

With the series Abstract Vibration, Didier Fournet continues his investigation into the perceptual limits of photographic image-making. This body of work marks a decisive step in which photography largely abandons its descriptive function  to become a field of sensations, rhythms, and visual tensions.
 

The images originate from fragments of reality—urban environments, human flows, architectural structures, and  anthropized landscapes—submitted to a process of digital transformation that destabilizes the original photographic source. While never denied, the referential image is deliberately rendered fragile, sometimes hovering at the threshold  of recognition. The works thus oscillate between residual figuration and vibratory abstraction.
 

Vibration stands at the core of the series, functioning as both a formal and perceptual principle. It manifests through  the fragmentation of forms, the diffraction of color, and the dissolution of contours. Rather than seeking visual effect,  the work aims to generate a state of visual intensity in which the viewer’s gaze is set in motion. Perception unfolds  over time, inviting a slow and active engagement with the image.
 

Abstract Vibration questions our contemporary relationship to images—immediate, saturated, and consumable. By  disrupting visual certainty, Didier Fournet proposes a photographic practice that resists instant readability and  re-engages the viewer’s body and attention. The image becomes an experience: a sensitive surface, a mental projection, rather than a representation of the world.
 

Through this series, Didier Fournet affirms a position at the intersection of photography, abstract painting, and  contemporary digital practices, opening a space where reality is no longer depicted but physically and perceptually felt.
 

 

TECHNIQUES
Digital photography – Work on the pixel, blur, vibration, and the decomposition of the image
Fine Art prints – Works developed in series
 

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MAIN SERIES
Vibrations – Abstract Vibrations 
 

EXHIBITIONS – Vibrations series
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Paris, Shanghai, Saint-Tropez, Biarritz, Guéthary
ART FAIRS : New York, Miami, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Texas, Hamptons, Shanghai, HongKong, Amsterdam, Londres, Bruxelles, Hambourg, Paris…
INSTITUTIONAL: Musée de Guéthary (solo exhibition)
 

EXHIBITIONS – Abstract Vibrations series
INSTITUTIONAL: Musée de Guéthary (solo exhibition)