Jump

The Jump series was born from an unexpected encounter. While flying by helicopter to work on another collection, Antoine Gaussin’s gaze was suddenly drawn towards a horse jumping arena below. From the ground, the scene was familiar.

From the air, it became something entirely different. The vivid colours of the obstacles, the curves of the tracks and the traces inscribed into the sand formed an unexpected visual language. The horse itself disappeared.

What remained was movement made visible. Paths intersect. Circles unfold.

Lines repeat. Colours punctuate the surface. The sand becomes a canvas on which the choreography of the horses has been temporarily recorded.

In Jump, Gaussin explores the tension between hyperrealism and abstraction. The photographs retain an extraordinary precision of detail, yet the radical change of viewpoint transforms the subject into something almost unrecognisable. What appears to be a vast landscape may in fact be a relatively small detail.

What resembles a microscopic structure may reveal itself as an entire arena. Some compositions evoke the ordered serenity of Zen gardens. Others recall chromosomes, cellular structures or microscopic organisms.

These associations remain deliberately open: the images offer possibilities rather than explanations. The result is a form of graphic poetry, born from an ordinary landscape transformed by an extraordinary point of view. With Jump, Antoine Gaussin reminds us that abstraction does not necessarily require the invention of another world.

Sometimes, it is enough to look at the world differently.