Songe

twenty-two photographs,
color and black and white, various formats

Artistic residency realized in spring 2020 as part of the BZH PHOTO Festival in Brittany




Impossible to be remain indifferent to the tides. The water arriving, settling progressively. Erasing traces and turning into a luminous surface. When it leaved, at each cycle, a new scenery emerged. The intertidal area almost devoured me, but it also offered me its treasures. In the sea, as on land, boodies were at work. To plant, to cultivate, to rescue, but just as much to enjoy oneself. The thickness of history permeated the pores. I trieds breathing in the aromas, and sopping up the felt effects. Like a chimerical stroll, perhaps revealing our desire elsewhere, between the hardness of the world and the power of the imagination. Songe is in some sorts a conjugation between the consistencies of the real and what appears before our eyes when they are closed, without us being asleep.


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