Nō is a French photographic artist, born in 1977. His work is deeply structured by an aesthetic of the living in all its forms – at times familiar, at times strange, sometimes held at a distance. Through chance encounters, he builds a poetry of the organic: of skins, barks and carapaces. Thus a body of work takes shape, made of collection, observation and obsession.
Heuristic number 1
Trust your ability to tell stories, even if you are a stuttering guy - and let’s call it an “ironic skill”
VESPERE
2024
We are not all made of sun
NARROWNESS OF ALMOND TREES
2024
Quadriptych for passers-by, invited to think of those who remain and make life bloom at spring
SOUS SES FRONDAISONS
2024
Love is where you can find a shade
80x120 cm
MAXENCE
2023
Demeanour
JE NE DESIRE AUCUNE FEMME REELLE 3
2012
DORTMANN’S LITTLE GHOSTS
2025
Personal victory
MAGDALA
2015
80x120 cm
HAEMORRHAGE
2025
Investigation into a road traffic casualty
SUTURES
2026
Osseous geography
EMPUSA PENNATA
2026
LADIES IN THE SUN ARE ECHOES
2021
Series about a visual conversation
JE NE DESIRE AUCUNE FEMME REELLE 2 (GIRAFE)
2012
PRAXIS
2021
Demonstrability of tension
PRAEY
2022
Installation about an illustrated algorithm
UTRICULARIA
2024
The bright side of carnivorous diet
HEAD OF A STAG BEETLE
2020
What’s left
PORTRAIT OF ANNE
2024
A LA FAVEUR DE
2020
Heuristic number 2
Settle a dialogue with natural sciences: they are so talkative and sensitive…
Heuristic number 3
Soul-thrilling more than eye-reading - it’s a matter of impairment.
SELF-PORTRAIT
2018
Self-portrait
80x120 cm
DANCE OF THE CROW
2022
VERITE ⏐ 2020
Agressively pretending to live
INNER THORNS (PORTRAIT OF ROSIE)
2020
THE DISSIMULATION (SECOND PORTRAIT OF JESSICA)
2021
CONVERGENCE OF DESIRES
2022
Portraying Epidendrum ciliare of Balata garden, Martinique
COMPLETE
2020
In the interstitium of breast cancer recovery path
CHRIST
2010
120x120 cm
JE NE DESIRE AUCUNE FEMME REELLE 5 (NIXDÄMMERUNG)
2011
PARTHENOPE
2025
JEWEL
2023
Exuvia
JE NE DESIRE AUCUNE FEMME REELLE 1
2011
Heuristic number 4
Dive into your obsessions as if they were harmless.