Piierre-Olivier Arnaud

Pierre-Olivier Arnaud’s work operates at the intersection of photography, installation and spatial perception.

Rather than treating photography as a purely representational medium, he frequently transforms images through processes of enlargement, folding, textile transfer or architectural placement, thereby destabilising their documentary function.

Notre-Dame de Joie, Saint-Thuriau reflects this approach by engaging photographic imagery as material rather than narrative content. The work emphasizes surface, scale and context, inviting viewers to experience the image as an object in space. Architectural references and site-specific considerations often play a role, allowing the work to oscillate between image, sculpture and environment.

Arnaud’s broader practice explores how images circulate, fragment and reappear within contemporary visual culture. By reducing recognisable motifs and foregrounding texture, repetition and abstraction, he shifts attention from what an image depicts to how it operates physically and perceptually. The result is a body of work that examines memory, mediation and the instability of visual meaning.