Investing spaces
Empty spaces, crowded spaces, functional spaces, abandoned spaces… Rooms, doorways, corridors, landscapes... Temporary stages of material...
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows,
the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (in Praise of Shadows)
Alexandre Leroi Cortot has been living in Ishikawa, Japan since April 2006. Fascinated with chiaroscuro aesthetics and the expressive contrast between the light and Japanese traditional paper, Alexandre has been working as a freelance artist, designing and hand-cutting hundreds of original compositions for several years.