Impressionism is an intimate and sensory journey through the Norman landscape, where the artist Jonathan Bertin explores the porous boundaries between the real and the imagined, landscape and memory, heritage and creation. Inspired by the masters of Impressionist painting—who themselves were travelers of the moment, capturing the shifting light of a world in motion—he reclaims the very places where this movement was born to question our contemporary way of “seeing.”
The project emerges from a return to origins, to one’s native land—not as an anchor, but as a springboard into the dreamlike. Where Impressionist painters departed from reality to reach a chromatic emotion, Jonathan Bertin begins with objective photography, gradually slipping into a sensory and recomposed narrative. Each image becomes a threshold crossed: between document and fiction, suspended time and inner movement.
Created between 2023 and 2024, the series brings together 54 photographs, accompanied by a book, a bespoke fragrance, an original soundtrack, and a short film. Through this immersive framework, Impressionism becomes a global and cross-disciplinary experience
