Dana and Stéphane Maïtec’s photo series is a clear proof of their experimental, incessant and lively research.
Lighting has always been a major preoccupation for the couple in their work. The new series of photographs highlights light as the main creative protagonist; the multi-layered coloured volumetry. We see in these new, almost sculptural, painting-like images the result of a mysterious rediscovery of photography.
Leaving aside their focus on the figurative, the two artists place colour, form and reflection at the centre of their photographic investigation. The setting is no longer a visible landscape but becomes an integral part of the image, in a spectacular and revealing revelation of the creative potential of working with natural light.

Their new work is a shift from figurative to non-figurative and abstract photography, an unexpected shift from the concreteness and materiality of the figurative to the softness of the image: the weightlessness of shapes and colours created by light.
In a world where technology claims an ever-increasing power in the image-making process, Dana and Stéphane Maïtec make authentic use of photography. Technology is a very discreet, slightly perceptible factor in their work.

The new photographs are created in the privacy of their studio, with natural light. They discreetly reveal a process in which the camera records the birth of colours, volumes, reflected forms and layers without any technical intervention, except that of the camera witnessing the privileged moment when light, reflections and objects interfere.      

The two photographers abandoned their figure-centred research for a moment to investigate the boundaries between photography, painting and light sculpture, an undeclared manifesto for a new fluid art genre. A bold new reassertion of light and a plea for minimalist, technology-free artist intervention.