Born in Geneva in 2005, Pierre Armand was raised in an artistic environment, the son of an architect father and a visual artist mother. His early years were marked by a strong inclination toward drawing, accompanied by an ambition to pursue a career as a comic book author. At the age of six, he began studying theatre, a discipline he would practice for more than thirteen years, notably at the Geneva Conservatory. At seventeen, while enrolled in an international school, he discovered filmmaking through a cinema course, an encounter that profoundly shaped his artistic trajectory. This exploration of moving images naturally extended to photography, with a particular interest in analogue practices. Currently a second-year bachelor’s student in film at the University of Montreal, he continues to develop his work in both cinema and photography, disciplines linked by a common thread: film. In 2025, he directed Cain, a short film shot on 35 mm, which was awarded Best Experimental Film at the Kraken International Film Festival in Milan.
Project Statement
My photographic work explores zones of passage, where outlines waver, where two fragile realities blend. Each of my series follows a movement in which bodies become shadows, mirrors, or flashes of light. I seek the persistence of a bond despite the break, for the possibility of a gaze beyond the visible. My pictures question suspended time, the boundaries that separate two beings or two worlds, and the way in which, in silence or in fever, memory is born.
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