La capitale tome I et II

Cinema, its history, the images it produces, both as they are and as we conceive them, are the preferred materials of Raphaël Rossi. They are found as much in his practice as a sculptor as in his more recent and increasingly prevalent work in collage, through which the artist seems to be developing a new approach to. Mixing within his collages film posters, portraits of actresses and actors – true icons –, logos of theaters, producers, and distributors, Raphaël Rossi captures the singular materiality of these images, as well as the thoughts they convey. In doing so, he questions both the ontological and physical relationships between the individual and cinema, between intimate and collective imaginaries, leading to analyses to which the figure of the artist is not immune.

Text by Eric Degoutte