"I have been showing Mathieu Walter's photographic works for over 10 years. In my opinion, Mathieu is a master of composition who uses innovative digital tools in addition to his camera to create unique works."
Stephanie Peyrissac
Mathieu Walter pursues a personal work by questioning the notion of intimacy. How is it defined in today's world? Through a surprising blurring of variable geometry that adorns Jade's body, it is ultimately the viewer of these bodies who finds himself observed by thousands of gazes. Indeed, more than 100,000 faces meticulously recompose each photograph. Finally, each print is distinguished from the others by a unique arrangement of these faces.
Mathieu Walter began working at the age of 18 as an assistant to several fashion and advertising photographers, including Jean-François Aloïsi. At the same time, he studied Fine Arts in Paris. Photographer of Haute Couture fashion shows for the houses of Nina Ricci, Torrente, Hanae Mori, he then produced numerous portraits of celebrities (Sonia Rykiel, Emma Thomson, Dustin Hoffmann, Garry Kasparov) for international magazines. He developed a personal photographic work which, thanks to a decisive meeting with Sophie Bernardin, then director of the Crazy Horse, would be the subject of a first exhibition in Paris, later presented in Singapore.
The artist questions the notion of intimacy. How can we define it today? What place does it occupy in a world where Man propagates his image without borders or barriers, where he makes himself visible, becomes exterior?
Patiently, Mathieu Walter watches for each moment, moments of truth because he photographs beings who do not show themselves, taken in situ without direction or complicity, captured through this window or between the handrails of this escalator, recompositions where alchemy operates between the mystery of this silent harmony and the tumult of big cities.
Since 2004, Mathieu Walter has exhibited regularly in Paris, Geneva, London, Monaco, Megève, Cannes, Gstaad, Verbier and Venice.
Mathieu Walter
2021
Inkjet print on Fine Art paper
92 x 66 cm
Unique framed copy* The photograph I present is unique. The photographer reserves the right to produce 8 copies of the same model but each time with a different mesh. +4EA




















