There is no gravity on the shore anymore

Celestial landscapes appear, scales of space and time merge, we get lost between the infinitely small and the infinitely large. The series The is no gravity on the shore shifts us into another reality where the exploration of the shore becomes a poetic-cosmic odyssey questioning the human’s insatiable desire of conquest, its capacity for wonder, confronting this fabulous human nature and its difficulty to live harmoniously with its environment.

The black and white photographic negatives show another vision of the coastline, this particular frontier at the meeting of three distinct environments that are the earth, the ocean and the sky. A boundary crystallizing since always fears and dreams, the natural human curiosity and its capacity for wonder but also for understanding and reflection. A space also revealing the impact of our modern lifestyles. It is changing under the effect of global warming with the phenomenon of rising sea levels. It bears witness to unbridled consumption and the resulting pollution.

It is the connection with the ocean, this mysterious universe, of which we know surprisingly few things. The "liquid path", as the Greek aedes Homer called it, symbolizes the communication between continents. Standing on the shore, facing our horizon, we lower our eyes and scrutinize the world on this ephemeral ground. These constellations of objects, from human origin or not, that litter the beach tell a story.

Referring to scientific imagery, the negative version of the photographs reveals what was hidden. Like an illumination, it transforms darkness into light. It shows us another reality, allows us to adopt another vision and thus to rediscover the common. It revives a feeling of lost wonder and diverts the viewer from an anthropocentric vision. This passage from positive to negative as well as from colour to black and white expresses can also an idea of turning back, like a salutary redemption.