Robin Cerutti Wants to Make You Dream
Exchanging Microprocessors for The Blue Waters.
INTERVIEW WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER ROBIN CERUTTI
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
LES COULEURS: What is your goal?
ROBIN CERUTTI: My dream is to reach a point where I’m fully free to create as well as to develop new technologies that I can use in my creative process.
LC: What’s your background?
RC: I used to be a scientist. I have both an engineering degree and a Ph.D. In my previous life, I was focused on developing new technologies, building transistors and microprocessors.
LC: What dream do you pursue?
RC: When I started to create art, the photographic medium was a new way for me to escape. And not only through the creating but also through the development process. After 10 years of being a full-time artist, I realized that the reason I do it is to make people reach a dreamy or pensive state, one person at a time. Thus the dream I pursue is to make people dream.
LC: If you could live with just one work of art, what would it be?
RC: Right now I don't really have a proper place to call home so I love to carry with me a tiny painting from my sister that I really like. I would love to have a photograph from Bart Pogoda somedays. He is the friend who made me discover the medium years ago.
LC: What role does the artist have in society?
RC: I believe that artists, through their creation allow people to feel inspired, question their reality and perception. Artists follow their own path and express themselves through their own themes instead of looking for instant gratification. They open the mind to different points of view. They share and give emotions as well as shock or provoke change.
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
LC: Who are your biggest influences?
RC: I have been inspired by my artist friends, they gave me the wish to start exploring my passions. Yet, when I work on my research, I try to not look too much at what other artists do. I try to keep an eye on artists who influence emotions and people, so they can inspire me. However, I am not to be influenced too much.
LC: What are you working on now? Exciting future projects?
RC: Covid slowed my creations down a bit. I spend a lot of time learning mandarin as I would love to go explore new places that I don’t know yet in the near future. As soon as I'll get a new studio I will be looking forward to it.
LC: Can you tell us about your creative process?
RC: I explore different identified series at the same time and generally show them after a couple of years when they get out of trend or daily influences. That is a way to escape the generalized feeling of instant validation that social networks put on us.
LC: Why do you love what you do?
RC: I love to create and get involved in new projects. I switched from science to art to make people dream. I love making reality look surreal, challenging the mind, and be more open to the world around us.
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
ROBIN CERUTTI
From the artist’s archives
