
Vexin – Vie
- Publisher
- Diaphane éditions
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 978-2-919077-60-1
- Specifications
- Paperback
11 x 15.5 cm
64 pages
34 black-and-white photographs
Text by Romain Cavallin
[…] What does it mean to be young in 2020, facing the mobility challenges linked to these rural areas?
For four months, I traveled through the towns of Vexin-Thelle in search of answers. I started this artistic residency in the Avron house, the former residence of a theater actor, and his wife, a psychoanalyst and sculptor. They bequeathed it upon their death to the town of Hardivillers-en-Vexin. In this house, there was a rehearsal room that I transformed into a camera obscura, a huge life-size camera, and a film laboratory. Thus, it was possible to take photos with the house, always with the same framing. My working approach was unequivocal: invite residents to come and have their photos taken in front of this rehearsal room. And at the same time offer them a portrait taken by me with a more mobile camera. So, I moved to meet them and I was led to photograph the territory in its entirety. […]