Le champ des étoiles ou la terre remuée - Part. 2
France. 2021-2022. Travail soutenu par la BNF et le Ministere de la Culture dans le cadre de la grande commande photographique d Etat. Depuis 2020, a la sortie du premier confinement, j ai initie une reflexion photographique sur le Chemin de Compostelle. Un premier axe de travail a ete de m interroger sur la modernite de ce pelerinage, sa signification actuelle et l echo possible avec les fantomes d autrefois et ma propre sensibilite.
En contrepoint, j ai developpe un deuxieme axe de travail (que je présente ici) portant sur les pelerins et les sedentaires vivant et oeuvrant le long du chemin. Il fut question d aller a leur rencontre et de les interroger sur leur situation, sur leur rapport au monde et au territoire. J ai rencontre plusieurs corps de metiers, une pluralite de profils au gre de mon itinerance. Interroger les sedentaires fut notamment un moyen de dresser un portrait en creux du territoire et de questionner photographiquement sur son etat actuel (les espaces ruraux, l habitat...)
Ce projet dans son ensemble dresse ainsi un portrait de notre pays, revele les ramifications de la riche histoire jusqu a nos jours, et etablit des liens avec les preoccupations actuelles sur l espace, le rapport a la terre, et la place des croyances dans l ere moderne.
C est ce que propose ce travail itinerant : une enquete photographique sur notre condition humaine et un voyage temporel a travers notre histoire commune.
Le principe de la marche n est pas anodin. Il implique l idee meme de proximite, d intimite. Aller vers l autre, au plus pres, dans le contact, dans l effort, pour se mettre au meme niveau que l interlocuteur. Marcher sur ce territoire, prendre le temps de traverser ces routes, ces champs, ces villages, ces etablissements isoles temoigne d une implication presupposee. Cette position de marcheur m a permis de denouer reellement les relations et a facilite la construction de liens humains et le recueil de la parole et temoignages.
Ce projet photographique a repris le meme processus de travail qui me caracterise : la collecte de materiaux photographiques ou portraits, paysages et details vont se correspondre et se nourrir les uns les autres, creant une narration immersive. L idee est de composer un corpus d images constituant une mosaique visuelle.
The field of the stars or the stirred earth - Part. 2
France. 2021-2022. Work supported by the BNF and the Ministry of Culture within the framework of the great state photographic commission. Since 2020, at the end of the first confinement, I have initiated a photographic reflection on the Way of Compostela. A first axis of work was to question myself on the modernity of this pilgrimage, its current significance and the possible echo with the ghosts of the past and my own sensitivity.
In parallel, I developed a second axis of work (which I present here) concerning the pilgrims and the sedentary people living and working along the way. It was a question of going to meet them and questioning them about their situation, their relationship with the world and the territory. I met several trades, a plurality of profiles along my itinerary. Interviewing the sedentary people was a way to draw a portrait of the territory and to photographically question its current state (rural spaces, habitat...)
This project as a whole draws a portrait of our country, reveals the ramifications of its rich history up to the present day, and establishes links with current preoccupations about space, the relationship to the land, and the place of beliefs in the modern era.
This is what this traveling work proposes: a photographic investigation of our human condition and a temporal journey through our shared history.
The principle of walking is not insignificant. It implies the very idea of proximity, of intimacy. To go towards the other, as close as possible, in contact, in the effort, to put oneself at the same level as the interlocutor. To walk on this territory, to take the time to cross these roads, these fields, these villages, these isolated establishments testifies to a presupposed implication. This position as a walker allowed me to really unravel relationships and facilitated the construction of human links and the collection of words and testimonies.
This photographic project has taken up the same working process that characterizes me: the collection of photographic materials where portraits, landscapes and details will correspond and feed each other, creating an immersive narrative. The idea is to compose a corpus of amalgamated images, constituting a visual mosaic where all the photographic materials respond to each other by scattered touches.
