Axel Pimont
Axel Pimont is a Marseille-born photographer and film scholar. What first drew him to cinema now plays out in a photographic practice working in the wake of the Nouvelle Vague. Offhand framing, hard light, and a taste for contingency run through the work, where the everyday passes for a New Wave still.
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For ten nights and days, the elephant-headed deity Ganesh — patron of abundance, dispeller of hindrances — descends to dwell among mortals. To step into Ganesh Chaturthi is to surrender to exuberance. Yet with a 28mm sweep, Axel Pimont takes a counter-step. In his Fête de Ganesh series, he commits the festival to crisp black and white. Shorn of their pageantry, flowers and idols alike yield to sweat and grain amid the syncopated crush: faces ablaze, spirits alight, rivulets of sweat mingling with coconut water.
As Ganesh is once again surrendered to the river, Pimont's lens holds in monochrome what is otherwise destined to vanish: altars built to be dismantled, a deity borne to the water by his devotees.
