Traverser la lumière is a photographic collection born from a pilgrimage in Newfoundland.
It explores the idea of the transitional passage and what remains in the memory of a place, of a life. It reveals the dialogue of light with the landscape, in an ethereal evocation where colors and textures interweave.
Each scene represents these steps as imagined by the artist, where the essence leaves the body. He seeks to capture those enigmatic moments where his father lets himself be crossed by light, in that tipping point where the body releases and the essence merges into something vaster.
Through the movement of a body crossing space, Jean-Sébastien Veilleux inscribes light as an anchor on a canvas, by way of a conscious photographic gesture. The spirit of the place reveals itself as the evanescent and dreamlike trace of the memory of a place.
The crossing of Newfoundland's territory becomes, in this creative approach, a pretext for an initiatory ritual, a way of coming to terms with his father's departure.
This collection resonates with the artist's father, himself a photographer, and with the roads traveled by his side during childhood. It echoes those moments of quiet contemplation, bearing witness to his father's gaze as he searched for landscapes and light to photograph.
