Charles Negre’s work aims to explore how, by artificial reproduction one might get closer to nature's perfection. Every photograph begins as an object, a hand-crafted construction before the photographic production. The artificial reproduction allows one to express an idea in its exactness. Whether inspired by real things or not, these pictures are hypotheses of a certain reality. Landscapes (their représentations) have always been mere interpretations of real space, and thus situated somewhere between illusion and myth. These images are a personal, finite cosmos. A territory delimited. What is important is to create what seems to be an existing physical space; hence perception can sway between the impression of reality, illusion and its interpretation. The work aims to blur boundaries between space and time through photographic medium.

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