NICOLAS SALLOUM
Shades Of Dream

"Shades Of Dream" strives to explore the border between reality and fiction and to enhance the visual power of a very wide panel of details from our daily environment in order to offer a new form of aesthetics, that of the unnoticed.

My process consists of two main steps. The first one is focused on a combination of close-up and macro photography, shooting very varied details from multiple sources : decorative objects, sculptures, wax bodies, architectural elements, among others. Then, using 2D and 3D digital creation softwares, I pick up a snippet of my original picture and I try to build a brand new surreal object. The main idea of my work is to put forward a new conception of the photographic medium. By appending the photo and its transformation, I strive to gather reality and fiction in the same visual space.

The final goal is to maintain a form of mystery. I want the viewer to ask oneself, even before having felt an aesthetic emotion, the following question : "Where am I ?"

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