Jean-Claude Bélégou1985/1989 les années "Noir limite"

In the summer of 1984, Jean-Claude Bélégou met Yves Trémorin and Florence Chevallier in Arles, who joined Photographies and Co, then in 1986 the three of them formed the group noir limit: manifesto, exhibitions and catalogues "Corps à Corps", "La Mort"; performance of large-format prints in public. Their work is supported by Jacques Henric, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel and Jean-Claude Lemagny. This is the apogee in his work from the shadows. Noir Limite, with a turbulent history, dissolved in April 1993.

The series of the "cycle of the elements" (air-water-fire-earth) can also be interpreted as series on life (the Veils, Water), love (hand-to-hand combat), death (the Earth, the Virgins). The preoccupations with the sacred - "atheistic mysticism" - in a quasi-sacrificial logic, and with the inscription in the cosmos are affirmed. Plastically, the total decontextualization, the backlighting, the fragmentation and fragmentation of bodies characterize this period.

His works are part of the main French public collections: Bibliothèque Nationale, Musée Niepce, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Musée national d'Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou. Publications and exhibitions in Europe, Japan, the United States and South America. He took part in various exhibitions organized in France and abroad for the commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the discovery of photography and the bicentenary of the French Revolution.

In the meantime, the Musée Niepce devoted a solo exhibition to him in 1988 and he was successively presented for the Niepce Prize (awarded by Les Gens d'Images) by Paul Jay, Jean-Claude Lemagny and John Batho.

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