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Frédéric Lefever - [ Traduire cette page en français ]
Paradoxically, all notions of categorisation are absent from the work of Frédéric Lefever. This is one of the many traits which distinguish his work from most other contemporary French creation, indeed from most of what is being produced internationally. His practice of working with inventories is consequently neither systematic nor cooly emotionless ; in this way it is different from the School of Düsseldorf productions.
It is with disarming simplicity that Frédéric Lefever describes a quasi-anthropological map of the elementary cliches in a world outside of most people’s viewpoint. And yet this world assembles and resembles us, brings us together in our own image.
That is to say with the spirit of a society based on the ideas of reconstruction, sharing and renewing a sense of solidarity.
Thus, without wanting to be objectively documentary and sociological, or even excessively realistic, Frédéric Lefever’s photography seems to be simplest and most immediate tool for looking at and measuring the state of reality. «I like each photograph to be a receptacle, an enclosure through which one can look at the world».
