Edouard Taufenbach (France, 1988) and Bastien Pourtout (France 1982) form an artistic duo whose practice explores the boundaries between photography, collage, and visual perception.
Working collaboratively, they develop a shared language based on the manipulation and transformation of photographic material. Their approach often involves processes of decomposition, repetition, and accumulation, through which images lose their original documentary function and acquire new, subjective meanings.
At the core of their research is an interest in vernacular and anonymous photography, which they reinterpret through experimental techniques. By fragmenting and recomposing images, the duo creates layered visual structures that challenge the viewer’s perception and invite a more intimate and ambiguous reading.
Their work moves between two-dimensional and spatial forms, expanding from collage into installation, and reflects a common investigation into memory, perception, and the construction of images.