Jean-Luc MYLAYNE

Jean-Luc Mylayne was born in 1946 in Amiens. He lives and works in the world.

For more than 30 years, Jean-Luc Mylayne has led a nomadic life, surveying vast territories in search of mental images that he attempts to recreate through photographs which, systematically, feature birds. Although he has a great knowledge of ornithology, Jean-Luc Mylayne is absolutely not concerned with wildlife photography and the sources of his work must undoubtedly be sought from his initial training in philosophy. The birds that he photographs in a natural context within which almost always appear the indicative traces of human civilization are the pretext for the construction of a specific view of the world. Space is dual, split between an anthropomorphic dimension and the parallel existence of worlds with completely different functionings. Time, too, causes the friction of a human temporality with that of birds and, as such, the work of Jean-Luc Mylayne is not without evoking a whole section of American transcendentalist philosophy and its possible contemporary resonances.