Sbastien Reuz pays great attention to apparently banal urban constructions -airport runways, faades of buildings, domestic interiors, aerial views of cities, etc.- to record any possible twinklings of space through snowflakes, droplets of water in fountains, building illuminations, moonlight, rays of sunlight 1, etc. His photographs thus illustrate the prolific relationships of light absorption, dispersion, reflection and reverberation on worldly objects.
The artist brings photography into public living spaces whilst at the same time creating luminous images that manage to transport the spectator into another space, an even more floating, oneiric, poetic non-existence. The beauty of his photographic activity lies in this offering of a sensory experience of the displaced being. [...]
Extrait du texte de Larys Frogier in Sbastien Reuz, Constellation, Bruxelles, La Lettre vole, 2002.
Translation : Laura Austrums