Exploring the limits of our physical and mental experiences, Philippe Ramette unveils an absurd and fascinating universe populated by unexpected, surreal or derisory objects - scientific instruments, vacuum-measuring or levitation objects, mental prostheses, or simple poetic objects offering themselves to contemplation - which function, in his words, as "mirrors for the soul". Thwarting the laws of gravity, his "reflective sculptures" and metaphysical photographs feature suspended human figures and disconcerting self-portraits in which the artist, dressed in his eternal costume, embodies his own character in performances carried out under sometimes extreme conditions. 

As a preliminary phase of reflection, drawing, in black ink, appears to be a favourite medium for unfolding the ideas, concepts and representations that will colonise his photographs and sculptures, full-scale enlargements of the "irrational situations" illustrated. These paradoxical works disturb the imagination and the viewer's perception of the world, tipping him or her into another reality, one that is curious, irrational, absurd, even illusory. Produced without retouching software, these photographs conceal a long physical preparation, "prostheses" to maintain it in the manner of the tricks used in the cinema of the beginning of the 20th century. Tinged with humour and self-mockery, of which the title is often the proof, each work supports introspection and actively engages the viewer in appropriating this universe in order to project his or her own fiction, decompartmentalizing his or her experience of reality through performance or the physical experimentation of a thought process.