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Eaux Fortes

by Christophe Jacrot


  • HEMERIA
  • Expo: 18/10/2022 - 27/11/2022, Galerie BLIN, rue de l’Université, Paris 7
This sixth book that he dedicates to bad weather illustrates places, in town or in the country, from a new angle. More intimate thanks to the successive confinements, the photographer has experienced our isolation from the world and from human relationships in the bareness of the landscapes. His poetic universe has been strengthened, the power of the images has found a new, deeper meaning. Shaped by the cinema, his gaze is attached to the torments of the elements...

ISBN 9782490952342 | EN-FR | HB
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Publisher HEMERIA
ISBN 9782490952342
Publication date November 2022
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 320 x 400 mm
Pages 104
Language(s) Eng/ French edition
Exhibition Galerie BLIN, rue de l’Université, Paris 7
Description

Who dares today to complain about snow or rain? Water and ice, sources of life as much as of disasters, are more than ever perceived as beneficial works of art at a time of global warming. The 70 images that make up Eaux fortes are nostalgic and precious witnesses of this.
In France, Scotland, India or Siberia, the photographer, a solitary traveler, hassucceeded in blurring time and our reference points. We get lost between day and night, summer and winter, north and south, melancholy and hope. "It is this bad weather of always, that of our rainy vacations, of our sorrows, of our joys, of our emotions, of our childhood memories that I photograph."
This sixth book that he dedicates to bad weather illustrates places, in town or in the country, from a new angle. More intimate thanks to the successive confinements, the photographer has experienced our isolation from the world and from human relationships in the bareness of the landscapes. His poetic universe has been strengthened, the power of the images has found a new, deeper meaning.
Shaped by the cinema, his gaze is attached to the torments of the elements: bad weather, water, snow and wind, compose phantasmagorical or dreamlike scenes, sometimes strange often peaceful.
The Maison Keller, chosen for the cover image, becomes the icon of a nature that upsets reality, modifying it according to the seasons. The places become characters. Their emotions find a way of expression towards the immobile spectators that we are, even as we in turn melt into these majestic theatrical settings. Time seems to stand still in front of such a spectacle.


Eaux Fortes est une plongée inédite au coeur d'un monde figé doublement- par le climat, par la pandémie. Christophe Jacrot déploie dans ce nouveau livre la quintessence de ce qu'il a produit depuis ces deux dernières années, toujours aux quatre coins du monde. Avec cette monographie exceptionnelle, Christophe Jacrot rassemble une sélection de ses clichés les plus intenses depuis 2019 (et quelques plus anciennes) : couleurs chatoyantes ou immaculées de collines et de montagnes, maisons solitaires perdues dans les neiges virevoltantes, êtres rigidifiés par le froid et silhouettes évanouies sous la pluie ou la neige dans des grandes mégalopoles à la verticale, rivages presque submergés par les vagues... Les contours du réel s'effacent-ils en même temps que le monde est emporté dans l'incertitude ? Avec Eaux Fortes, Christophe Jacrot offre encore un condensé puissant de sa quête esthétique, portée par une démarche essentiellement picturale et émotionnelle, inscrite dans le titre qu'il a donné à son ouvrage. Capter l'éternel, saisir l'immuable dans un univers changeanttelle est l'obsession instinctive d'un photographe qui oscille constamment entre le réel et l'imaginaire. Eaux Fortes est autant sa cartographie mentale et physique que la nôtre. Sous son objectif, l'immensité des espaces, la véhémence des éléments se jouent avec délectation de nos besoins d'intériorité et d'apaisement.