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François L’Hotel, in his entirely authentic and unique visual shots, reveals “another” world, an unknown world we rub shoulder with, without perceiving or even noticing. In the world of his photographs, all is real, derived from another, very different, perspective, that of the artist. He manages to transform the trivial into art, the minutiae into fascinating images, tempting us to discover his own narratives, founded on the comfort of time and the forever changing materiality of the visible. His way of conveying the real, discerning “the truth” hidden behind the image itself, is the strength of his artistic expression, even if sometimes his emblematic representations appear unreal or indecipherable. It is this strength that lends a unique character to his work and reveals that behind his aesthetic approach and his unconventional iconographic narrative, his art is charged with philosophical concepts, as he himself says “in the global human field in its dual dimensions, existential and social”. Louisa Karapidakis Curator and Art Historian.