Taking pictures, scanning fragments of nature, Isabelle Menin plays with texture and color, transforming and mixing them to reconstitute a rich and gorgeous faux nature.
She calls her work “inland photographs and disordered landscapes” in reference to nature’s strange complexity that looks to her like human strange complexity. The uncontrolled forces, the shapes’ complexity, the interweavings and the synergy of the elements, they all look like a mirror of human spirit.
“We are no straight lines, we are like nature, a very large network of interferences that work together to produce something which sometimes looks accomplished and then gets destroyed in a perpetual coming and going between order and disorder.”
After her formal studies Isabelle Menin explored painting for 10 years. Her recurrent subject matter has been nature, particularly flora. After several exhibitions in Belgium, she decided to quit painting and to work with digital photography.
Images courtesy of Isabelle Menin
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