Project Description
La peur du blanc (The fear of light)
Our memory is made of two worlds : so often what we think actually existed is nothing but the result of our imagination. We blend the real with the dream… or at least with what we think is real. If what we keep of the real world is so incomplete, then representing an imaginary landscape, a landscape “from the other side” becomes just as interesting.
La Peur du Blanc (The fear of light) presents photographs with simply reversed colors. These images are like prints left in our minds by children tales, stories of dark forests, myths and wolves. Think of the persistence of vision we all experience when we look at a bright object long enough and then close our eyes : what we see is the reversed image the object. A photo negative is precisely a reverse print of reality, waiting to be turned into a positive. But what if I choose to show only the negative, the engraved image within us?
When darkness turns into light and has to reveal itself, is it still a question of fear? Forests then become a place filled with imagination and unexpected poetry.
Years of creation : 2008-2009
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