Jean-Luc Mylayne: Mirror

Poetry and existential philosophical questions define Jean-Luc Mylayne’s conceptual photographic practice of over four decades. Capturing birds in their natural habitats, the artist creates formally surprising and carefully calibrated images.

Sprüth Magers is pleased to present 'Mirror', a choreographed selection of Mylayne’s works forming a distinctive ensemble thematically revolving around the fragility of our shared ecosystems and the brevity of life on earth. Every work on show is unique and the product of exceptional amounts of commitment, time and technical ingenuity. Requiring lengthy periods of preparation that stand in stark contrast to his subjects’ ceaseless anxious movement, the artist creates tableaux that possess the astounding ability to decelerate time. In a meditation on nature, life and transcience, Mylayne seems to explore the commonalities and divides between us humans and these fragile, untamed animals.