José Ferrer: Tokonoma Galerie, Saint Paul, Paris.

Story of a photo ...

On Monday I went to the Flea. I took some random pictures of what kept my attention: a small wooden horse, trees and sky on a painting canvasfaded, a chair, a trunk which was damaged leather rise to strange reasons ....

Tuesday it rained. And who knows, maybe I was looking for a little light: I started watching old photos, photos that I took once in Sardinia, these pictures we take a little mundane to fly to remember a time, a place, a gesture, a smile, a light.

And looking absently picture of a beach, overlapping forms of rocks, the memory of the texture of leather trunk photographed the previous day resurfaced suddenly unexpectedly.

I thought as soon as the little wooden horse of the day might find fun to frolic on the beach a little bleak and empty it would brighten up...

Later I closed my eyes and in my mind, the sky that day in May in Sardinia and the outline of the table in chips mingled, making it very far back of this gray rainy day now.

And later, like a puzzle, I started cutting objects and characters to choose scenes from my travels and walks and I built a kind of invented memory.

I often practiced since the "immersed in the images" of my past lives to bring back from the depths of the deep water of memories, these tables a perfect memory.

Jose Ferrer

I was very pleased to stumble across this tiny gallery located in the Marias this afternoon. Showing the work of spanish artist, Jose Ferrer. The show is carefully curated and exhibits a select number of intriguing photographs that are inspired by memory, family photographs and chance encounters. Using Photoshop as his medium, Ferrer pieces and layers different imagery together to create strange, yet eerily familiar photographs that draw the viewer in.For more information on the gallery and the artist you can view this website: http://galerie-tokonoma.com/encours/