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Jean-Vincent Simonet, French, b. 1991,
Simonet represents a pioneering force in contemporary photography, reconfiguring the boundaries between analog image-making, digital technology, and material sculpture. Emerging from the ECAL (École cantonale d'art de Lausanne) tradition, his practice moves decisively beyond traditional documentation to treat the photographic print as a fluid, unstable substrate. Simonet is celebrated for his hyper-saturated, hallucinatory explorations of urban nocturnal life, bodily intimacy, and environmental decay, framing his subjects through a chaotic, deeply personal, and painterly lens.
His defining methodology involves pushing digital printing processes to their physical limits. Utilizing large-format inkjet printers, he applies heavy layers of ink onto non-absorbent surfaces such as plastic film, photographic paper, and resin. Before the inks can set, he manually manipulates the wet surface using water, chemicals, glue, and physical gestures, allowing the imagery to bleed, dissolve, and smudge. This tactile, destructive intervention transforms sharp digital captures into volatile, highly expressive abstractions where deep, luscious darks collide with searing neon highlights.
Within the context of the Bushwick sur Seine archive, Simonet’s work serves as a compelling example of modern formalist experimentation and the physical re-imagining of mechanical reproducibility. His publications, most notably In Bloom, champion the photobook and the physical print not merely as containers for static images, but as evolving, tactile artifacts. By preserving his material-driven interventions, the collection highlights how the synthetic fusion of digital techniques and physical chemistry can expand the structural and sculptural possibilities of the printed matter.
Simonet’s In Bloom operates as a frenetic, hallucinatory love letter to the nocturnal underbellies of Tokyo and Osaka. Departing from traditional documentary travelogues, the project functions more like a fever dream or a deeply personal diary of excess, capturing an atmosphere of sensory overload, exuberance, and entropy. Simonet throws himself into the vibrant chaos of the Japanese metropolis, exploring the fluid boundaries between the human body, cybernetic decor, and profound artifice.
This project represented a maturation of Simonet's experimental practice, marking a shift toward the aggressive physical manipulation of the photographic surface as a means of expressing psychological saturation and urban exhaustion.