
Waldeslust
- Publisher
- Filigranes Éditions
- Year
- 2002
- ISBN
- 978-2-914381-36-9
- Specifications
- spiral-bound softcover
330 x 220 mm
54 pages
44 colour video prints on 350 g paper
frosted PVC slipcase
CD with an electroacoustic piece by Hugues Descarpentries
edition of 700 numbered copies signed by Lucile Risch
Canning the image is necessary to master time and the unfolding of simultaneous or consecutive actions. The bucolic calm that shows through these images is deceptive: the bluish light makes an unhealthy climate of atomic cataclysm reign. These strollers seem frozen by an evil spell: some walk without advancing, others chat without uttering words. The manifest stasis makes the protagonists bloodless and confines each in his own little compartment of "misfortune". A freeze-dried film. Waldeslust questions the bucolic aspirations of city-dwellers within the city walls: whoever wants to "escape" from the city and its plethora of small aggressions takes refuge in the countryside or in the enclaves of greenery that are public gardens. Each city-dweller seems to carry within an embryo of the noble savage. This artist's book is accompanied by a CD containing an electroacoustic piece created by Hugues Descarpentries.