{"id":6923,"date":"2025-10-21T17:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/blogue\/eric-petr-maintains-a-dynamic-relationship-with-light\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:16:18","slug":"eric-petr-maintains-a-dynamic-relationship-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/en\/blogue\/eric-petr-maintains-a-dynamic-relationship-with-light\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9RIC PETR MAINTAINS A DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH LIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls muted src=\"https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Exposition-Spirituelles-Odysees-Sept_25-Arles.mov\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Spirituelles Odyss\u00e9es&#8221; exhibition for the opening of the Atelier de La Grande Vitrine in Arles on Sept. 30. 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00c9ric Petr maintains a dynamic relationship with light<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2014 like a spiritual illumination emerging from the night of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He treats apparition as an inner space, challenging the viewer to make the necessary effort to grasp it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He materialises a distortion of time that traverses space \u2014 a radiance emanating outward, and a sensation of transcendence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His experiments question the conditioning of the gaze toward form, as well as its approach to reality and abstraction alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ana Sartori  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Text presented for the exhibition \u201cSpiritual Odysseys\u201d at the opening of L\u2019Atelier de La Grande Vitrine in Arles, on 30 September 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagrandevitrine.art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atelier de La Grande Vitrine<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>124 Quai de Trinquetaille, Arles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EP_IMG_5288E-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EP_IMG_5288E-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EP_IMG_5288E-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EP_IMG_5288E-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EP_IMG_5288E-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ericpetr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EP_IMG_5288E.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9ric 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 \u2014 like a spiritual illumination emerging from the night of time. 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