Dimitris Pikionis, landscaping around the Acropolis, Athens  

Beyond architectural documentation, Hélène Binet’s work reinterprets the buildings she photographs transcending the representation of reality to be exhibited as a work of art proper. Born in Switzerland and currently living in London, it was during her period of studies in Rome when Daniel Libeskind encouraged her to introduce architecture in her art. Since then the photographer has worked with the most prominent contemporary architects, stripping their works of functional content to capture their purely artistic dimension. When seeing the images collected in the following pages, no one will think about the tourists who walk along the path of Dimitris Pikionis to the Acropolis, about the signs that guide us through the Kolumba Diocesan Museum by Peter Zumthor, or about the highways surrounding the Strasbourg station by Zaha Hadid, because Hélène Binet’s photography has the ability to isolate the volumes and shapes by materializing their textures and turning the perception of space into an interplay of light and shadow…[+]