Carpentier Vincent

After working as a commercial engineer from 1987 to 1992, and then as a mathematics teacher, I’m now dedicating myself to my artistic work, which I’ve been carrying out in parallel, on the side, for several years.
Coming from a background in photography, and street photography in particular, I’ve gradually incorporated over the last few years painted elements and collages into my images. So it was almost natural for me to turn to painting, in which my taste and fascination for urban art can be seen.
My artistic approach is sensitive. It is not intellectualized. It brings me back to themes to which my life – I lived for four years in Egypt and three in Morocco – and my travels in sub-Saharan Africa have made me particularly attentive.

It’s often about peregrination, wandering, migration.
It’s about being elsewhere, going elsewhere, seeing elsewhere.
It’s also sometimes about precariousness and suffering.
“The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth, would not be to go towards new landscapes, but to have other eyes, to see the universe with the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is…”. Marcel Proust

Participating in this virtual exhibition is a chance to be seen, and to see with these other eyes.