09.18.2025-11.15.2025
Thirty Days at Cali
photographs by Alexandre de Rougemont
Fifteen previously unseen photographs by Alexandre de Rougemont taken in 2024 during a thirty-day trip to California, in dialogue with a selection of decorative arts from the 1920s to the 1970s and antique walking sticks from the 17th century to the 1930s.
"This journey begins in Los Angeles. It ends in San Francisco. But in reality, it follows no straight line.
It is a chosen wandering, a free gaze on California.
For 30 days, I traveled through cities, coasts, roads, and silences, guided by feeling rather than a map.
Surfing, architecture, landscapes, shadows, skateboarding, harsh or golden light...
Everything we think we know is seen differently here. Without chronology. Out of time.
The images are not alike—deliberately so.
Some vibrate in black and white, others burst with color, saturated or almost faded.
It's an instinctive, almost musical choice. Each image has its own medium, its own breath.
Fine Art paper, brushed aluminum, Dibond, “American box” frame...
Materials that extend the image, that tell as much as the subject photographed.
This is not a series. It is a universe.
An invitation to see differently, to feel freely.
Far from conventions, closer to intimacy.
To look is already to travel.
- Alexandre de Rougemont
Image
Alexandre de Rougemont
Air Stream, 2024, tirage Gallery Bond, n°1/2