Introduction
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Alexandre Dupeyron:
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Alexandre Dupeyron (b.1983) is a French-German artist whose photographic work explores the thresholds between image and matter, presence and disappearance. Initially trained as a photojournalist in Paris, Dupeyron spent several years living abroad — in Morocco, Singapore, and India — absorbing the textures of distant cities and the echoes of their forgotten spaces. But his trajectory shifted in 2011 from reporting to something more elusive: a practice shaped by reverie, accident, and the slow erosion of appearances.
Dupeyron doesn’t seek to document the world as it is, but to reveal its fragility — what flickers at the edges of perception. He moves between the visible and the imagined, working with historical processes like gum bichromate printing, not out of nostalgia, but as a way to probe the physicality of the image. Light, blur, texture, and silence become materials in their own right.
His series unfold as open narratives: from the dehumanised landscapes of Runners of the Future and De Anima, to the ecological and mythological resonances of L’étale des saisons, Mondes Oubliés, Hapax, and Pinus Pinaster. His latest project, Ashes of the Future, began in the aftermath of the devastating bushfires in Australia (2019–2020), continued through the scorched forests of southwestern France in the summer of 2022, and concluded in the United States with the support of the U.S. Forest Service and scientists from the Fire Lab. The series doesn’t just depict fire — it questions it, as a symbol, a force, and a warning. At once elemental and political, fire becomes the stage on which our fragile entanglement with the Earth plays out.
In parallel, Dupeyron has developed a transdisciplinary practice that connects photography with sound and performance. In 2022, he published his first monograph, Dysnomia (Sun/Sun), which became the foundation for Dysnomia Live — a one-hour performative piece in which Alexandre constructs a visual narrative in real time, drawing from the depth of his photographic archives. On stage, his images unfold in a dramaturgical arc, responding to and dialoguing with original music composed and performed by Thomas Julienne and the quintet Theorem of Joy. The piece toured Southeast Asia in 2023 and China in 2024 (Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai), with the support of the Institut français – Export program.
Whether working in print, performance, or sculpture — as in Janus, created in 2025 for the collective project 600° — Alexandre Dupeyron seeks not to fix the world in place, but to activate it. His images do not resolve; they resonate.
He currently lives and works between Bordeaux and Berlin, and is a founding member of the collective LesAssociés.
