Rivages, autoédition, coproduction Contretype et Galerie La part du feu, septembre 2025 (Extrait) / Selfpublished, coproduced by Contretype and La Part du Feu Gallery (Excerpt)
In certain respects, we could indeed speak of an objective approach, a quasidiagnosis, in which each frame takes on the task of revealing what is, what is there, steering clear of the picturesque or anecdotal in any form. This overall aspect, which implies a certain austerity and turns each image into a survey, acts, through repetition, like a succession of documentary stills that we find ourselves scrutinizing. What we discover, and what lends the argument its depth, is that we are faced with a floating scale, where the categories of near and far, instead of being quietly clarified as if set against a horizon that would render them legible, superimpose their effects: how far are we from this world, a world that now expands and now seems to shrivel up in its most intimate impulse? While, in some of these images – those with a little sky remaining, those marked with grass where a valley can be detected –, the reference to the expectations of the landscape remains effective, there are others, the majority, where we are so close that we have the impression of flying low over the skin of the Earth, to the point of perceiving its minutest wrinkles and slightest undulations.
Jean-Christophe Bailly
Excerpt, 2024
(Translation Patrick Lennon)