List of products by brand Maxime Fardeau
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Résidence d'artiste, Provence, Amélie Maison d'Art
2022
Exposition collective « Photo Saint-Germain », Galerie Maison d'Art Amélie, Paris
2021
Solo show – Série Le sel des années et Torii / Là où sont les oiseaux – Rencontres photographiques de Montpellier, Boutographies
2020
Solo show – Série Le sel des années – InCadaqués, international photo festival
Artist residency – InCadaqués, international photo festival
2019
Open Call official selection – Série Torii / Là où sont les oiseaux – InCadaqués, international photo festival
Group show – Série Torii / Là où sont les oiseaux – Le Grenier à sel, Avallon, France
Group show – Ensemble de polaroids – Festival Polaroid is not dead, Rennes, France
2018
Exhibition – Série Empreintes – Tremas, Paris, France
Sélection officielle de l’Open Call – Série Agonie de la lumière – InCadaqués, international photo
Group show – Série Empreintes – Atelier 62, Avallon, France
Group show – Série Empreintes – Le Grenier à sel, Avallon, France
First Award – Fisheye Magazine Poésie urbaine Contest
2017
Solo show Est-Nord-Est – La Karambole, Paris, France
2016
Solo show Hong Kong – myCowork, Paris, France
2015
Solo show De bois, de fer – Galerie La Lanterne, Paris, France
2014
Group show La main qui dessinait toute seule – Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
2013
Group show – Galerie La Lanterne, Paris,
Second Prize and jury's favourite – Concours Kodak Nation « Photographier la musique », Paris, France
2012
Solo show Bizarre Blizzard – XIème art, Paris, France
PRESS
2016
Published in Polaroidoftheday.com
2015
Published in Impossible Project Magazine
Published in L’Oeil de la photographie about the exhibition De bois, de fer, Galerie La Lanterne, Paris, France
Born in 1988, Maxime Fardeau lives and works in Burgundy.
A self-taught photographer, he explores the vast world of analog photography. Maxime develops his films and produces his prints in his darkroom, using traditional film-based processes.
The series Cadaqués, created in 2020, reflects his visit to this emblematic town of Salvador Dalí.
The artist set out to encounter the village—its inhabitants, its scents, its shadows and light, as well as its birds and the sea. His photographs convey a sense of timelessness and intimacy in these places that do not change, do not age.
Maxime Fardeau reveals suspended moments that evoke Cadaqués in Dalí’s time as well as today: his images are eternal, bearing witness to a town that remains unchanged, frozen in a time that feels both distant and intimate.
His work is influenced by Zen philosophy and the wabi-sabi aesthetic of the Far East.
In Cadaqués, a “small town nestled in arms of stone, whitened by salt and years,” Maxime Fardeau moves between sea and mountains, summoning memories that do not belong to him. Seen from afar, solitary figures swim or wander, indifferent to the rest of the world—an impression reinforced by framing that isolates their tiny bodies. These are like windows opening onto a dreamed elsewhere, a direct allusion to torii, those sacred gates forming a vermilion bridge between gods and mortals. “Photographs, these small fragments of the past, can become keys,” says Maxime Fardeau, whose analog prints take on sepia tones, the half-tint of time and wear. Nostalgia is not confined to Dalí’s homeland: from the beaches of Sydney to Icelandic lakes, from Hiroshima to Étretat, the same languor lingers, emerging from nowhere and spreading everywhere. His Polaroids printed on gampi paper and enhanced with gold leaf are no exception: in the streets, dazzled shadows wander, carrying their mystery with them.
— Virginie Huet
