Tank, Montréal, 2015

Through visual studies such as Marges or Distensions, a small selection of which is featured in the following pages, photographer Jérémie Lenoir explores the concepts of ‘third landscape’ or ‘non-place’ – phenomena that are shown now at a large scale through urban peripheries transformed into impersonal and dehumanized architectures. Profoundly inspired by the work of the artists from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and by expressionist painters like Rothko, Noland, Soulages, and Malevich, his images portray this reality as a pictorial transformation that permits contemplating those contemporary territories from a different perspective...[+]