"Paul Thuile works are photographs taken to fix drawings made by the artist in dilapidated places, re-propose the primacy of drawing over all other art forms. Even over photography itself, which here bends to the service of drawing and the magical, melancholy, mental, yet physical relationship between the drawing of a thing and a place and the thing itself, the place itself.

He does something very simple, yet very serious and poetic. He chooses houses, buildings that are inhabited and uninhabited, or about to be transformed, rearranged, demolished. He picks out a spot, a detail, a glimpse and approaches the wall almost adhering with his body to the wall surface, to the plaster. In that position he looks at what he sees, what falls within his cone of vision, within the horizon.

The cut is peculiar, it succeeds in going beyond the technical possibility and goes beyond the limit of a frontal vision the one to which instead the eye of the photographer is devoted, called on the spot to fix, precisely frontally, the drawing and in part the subject of the drawing itself, a staircase, a door, a fireplace, a table set, books, electric sockets, the floor, a sink, a window, a flower pot, radiators.

Sometimes the relationship is alienating: from that position the artist has observed what from a frontal viewpoint one cannot look at.

The picture bears witness to two worlds separated by a wall, by a space: two worlds, the real one and the mental one, the experienced one and the other, the drawn one. In these cases it is as if the drawing precedes us, as if the gaze advances before our body."