Nicolas Comment
Nicolas Comment
The first opus by Nicolas Comment, "La desserte", withholds characteristics found in his later photographs: works focused on the daily lives of artists, mainly based in France, with subtle colors and poetic blurs. The series nears becoming a fictional, intimate journal. Following his initial practice of creating videos, the photographs in La desserte evoke an image made through the writings of the cinema critic André S. Labarthe in the preface of his self-titled book, and appear to be stills from a film with no narrative. Nicolas Comment otherwise invites us to see the series as a short road movie, and to see in its title, above all, a nod to the range of colors in Henri Matisse's "La desserte rouge", than to his own taste for being on the road and traveling.Read more
"The white crease that ran on the front of the young girl's pink skirt echoed the dark crack in the empty frame of the mirror, and mimicked a white line that four pages later transformed into an image of the road at night. Nothing was for certain, but there were clues. Nothing was imposed, instead it was obvious. These ordinary miracles only obey the law that is given to them. There is a sinister coherence of an anecdote that creates a discrete interregnum between the chemistry of the colors and the geometry of the figures that, in turn, write another story." André S. Labarthe
