In A Sitting Poetry, Jean Clavel explores the poetry of empty chairs photographed in Greece. Silent witnesses, they become anchored points, object-characters where memory, absence, and imagination intersect. Each chair, seemingly ordinary, becomes an inner landscape, a fragment of narrative, an absent presence inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in suspended time - to project their own imagination.

Working exclusively in black-and-white analog photography, Jean Clavel combines artisanal precision with a poetic quest. Following his first series, exhibited in Paris, which was devoted to the ordinariness of time, he continues here his exploration of invisible presence by personifying simple objects. The chair thus becomes an object-character: condensed memory, bearer of invitation and enigma, offering the gaze both poetic density and silent intensity. By choosing analog photography and black and white, Jean Clavel captures the purity and power of a timeless light — that of the Greek coasts in spring and autumn — sculpting forms, shaping shadows, and deepening silences. Black and white does not show the world as it is, but as it "resonates". It strips the image of the superfluous to preserve the essential: tension, light, shadow and the emotional depth that inscribes each photograph.

In the narrow streets, by the sea, or in villages, Greek chairs stand still, suspended between everyday life and eternity. They wait, they observe, they welcome. Each image becomes a possible viewpoint, a moment of contemplation where reality and imagination meet, where what has been and what might come intertwine.