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TIME AND TIMELESSNESS IN MUTE THINGS BY STEPHANE SPACH

In Stéphane Spach's images there is a perfect silence by which those who approach them are immediately seized and held in respect. This silence comes first of all from the very things that the artist has chosen and placed before his exact gaze - drying leaves, branches immobilized in the void, impenetrable clods of earth, broken knives or inkwells of yesteryear, skeletons in plastic, dead birds ... — whose rendering could not be clearer, as if arrested, exalts the objective neutrality of the disinhabited appearance. Also this silence …