Cut the blue sky in the surrounding world

Cyril Saunier cuts out not only the sky but the world around it, made up of everyday architecture, like a child lying on his back watching the clouds. He does with photography what his great teacher Carlo Scarpa said in one of his lessons: “I wanted to cut out the blue of the sky”.
His photographic fragments portray ordinary, common objects and places; the poetry hidden in the details of the stadium bleachers, a staircase or a high voltage power pole. The stories of places, the traces they leave.
Cyril Saunier’s geometric compositions counteract today’s drifting housing developments in an attempt to re-establish order and share it. The communicative force of his shots lies in their compositional clarity, because he creates that material vacuum in which it is possible to represent gaps, distances, emptiness and air. Details capable of bringing to life a growing, open, broader picture to life, to be completed with the poetry in every one of us.
 
Christiane Bürklein