Bénédicte Blondeau, Ce qu'il Reste

Ce qu'il Reste

Bénédicte Blondeau

Publisher
XYZ Books
Year
2019
ISBN
978-989-99063-9-6
Specifications
Softcover with copper paper cover (offset print + silk screen)
20 x 28 cm
52 pages
450 copies
Inside: 24 duotone plates and 4 CMYK plates
Designed by Joana Durães
First edition

Planet earth at night. Seeing the world from above. Everywhere mankind has transformed the landscape, illustrated by the lights of the cities shining in the dark. Planet earth seen from its depths. A wild and spontaneous swinging. Instinctive. Organic. Ce qu'il reste is not about rupture. It's a change of perspective, a movement of come and go from one side to the other, reminding that the environment shaped and controlled by mankind is also fragile and ephemeral. Some things die, others appear. Transform. Regenerate. Ce qu'il reste is an invitation to travel - in space, but also in time. A journey through images created with a camera. Photography itself is often considered as the medium of the ephemeral. It shows us a moment that undeniably belongs to the past, reveals our passages in a constantly changing reality, like a scar recalling our memories: a metaphor of the fragility of human existence. But it is that same medium which eventually leads the spectator to a change of perspective, showing what remains when the same spaces are left by those who once inhabited them, with their individual stories and collective memories. Far from the turmoil of men, in the silent depths of the earth, an imperturbable and majestic movement continues its slow trajectory undertaken hundreds of millions of years ago. And maybe for eternity.

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