Initially trained in drawing, Sébastien Reuzé shifted his focus to photography, which he studied at La Cambre in Brussels, becoming his preferred medium. His multifaceted practice, encompassing various disciplines like installation and video, consistently finds its roots in photography.
Long hours spent in the darkroom allow him to experiment and cultivate the pictorial potential of photography. This results in works whose unreal tones refer to a dreamlike dimension and to the deeply contemplative nature of the artist. They unfold his aesthetic universe which is marked by American photography, the great journeys and road trips, the novels of Ballard, Camus or Conrad, and which is infused with the sunny culture and intense light of his upbringing on the French Riviera. Whether they reflect an intimate moment, a sensation, a landscape, each of Sébastien’s works endeavors to derealize the real, to make it tip over into fiction. Sometimes, they even emancipate themselves completely from the register of the image to border on abstraction. By allowing himself all these formal liberties, the artist opens up the field of interpretations in an infinite way.
His work has been the subject of exhibitions in Belgium and internationally, including The Finnish Museum of Photography, CPIF + Frac Haute Normandie, FOMU Antwerp, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Centre de La Photographie de Genève, Marta Herford Museum, Etablissements d’En Face, De La Charge, FRAC Bretagne, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain.