"Niemeyer's buildings in Brasília are meant to be monuments. But the truly founding, permanent and symbolic element of the essence of this city of the savannas is the wild land of the immense Brazilian territory. By photographing this presence of the earth, Emmanuel Pinard shows the essential of Brasília: the fact that it constitutes an attempt at colonising a territory that resists. As if this sea of virgin space surrounding Brasília penetrated on all sides, under the effect of its pressure, the very territory of the city, in the form of creeks, lagoons, fjords and inland seas. The usual images of Brasília show the built islands of this archipelago; Emmanuel Pinard prefers to photograph the changing states of this sea of space." Eric Lapierre