Éric Petr maintains a dynamic relationship with light
The subtlety of his shots generates a kind of dramatic intensity that is both intangible and elusive, bringing to the image an aura of mystery and strangeness — like a spiritual illumination emerging from the night of time.
He treats apparition as an inner space, challenging the viewer to make the necessary effort to grasp it.
The immaterial sensation of his images carries us into an infinite space without spatial or temporal reference points, which, like his apparitions, produce a perceptual experience that overwhelms us.
He materialises a distortion of time that traverses space — a radiance emanating outward, and a sensation of transcendence.
His experiments question the conditioning of the gaze toward form, as well as its approach to reality and abstraction alike.
Ana Sartori
Text presented for the exhibition “Spiritual Odysseys” at the opening of L’Atelier de La Grande Vitrine in Arles, on 30 September 2025.
Atelier de La Grande Vitrine
124 Quai de Trinquetaille, Arles
