A TEXTILES BLOG: Fabrice Fouillet

I found a French photographer called Fabrice Fouillet based in Paris. He works with a variation of matter from still life to architecture to fashion and product editorials but the work of his that I am interested in (and his latest) is entitled Corpus Christi meaning 'Body of Christ':

It highlights the sacred architecture of modern churches and cathedrals built in the 20th century, and a minimalistic aesthetic captures the striking effect of those places of worship.

I have read that these churches caused a public outcry when they were first revealed as the architectural structures were in conflict with traditional notions of religious architecture and conservative members of society.

On his website Fouillet writes: 'Corpus Christi highlights the architectural aesthetic of the new places of worship and their hymn to minimalism, which has represented a genuine creative inspiration in modern religious architecture... Scattered throughout Europe and the world, they reveal a new conception of the sacred, a representation of the divine imbued with modernity, thus triggering a debate and a rejection from some architects and members of the clergy. I have chosen to capture this break with the choice of materials; reinforced concrete, plastic, crystal, diffusion of diaphanous and bright light. This work also insists that many unique interior structures could be made for the same type of institution.