For around fifteen years, Aurore Bagarry has been photographing the sculptural formations of the glaciers of the Alps, the rocky coastline of the English Channel and more recently the Atlantic coasts, passing through Gironde and Brittany to Martinique and Guadeloupe. The repertoire of forms thus produced refers to a practice already widely present among the pioneers of photography at the end of the 19th century – typologies, herbaria or inventories – which often aimed as much to document nature as to domesticate it. If the incredible nature of the expeditions is blurred by the progress of means of transport, the imposing photographic equipment that she uses today still comes close. In the photographic chamber, it is with the same obsession with detail, the refraction of colors or the rustling of lights that she tries to reconnect. What plays out in Aurore Bagarry's photographs takes us to the confluence of elements seemingly impossible to reconcile, towards the vertigo of time, that of an Earth several billion years old which encounters and experiences the time of men, tiny in comparison. The coastline is the privileged place for reflection on time: it embodies both the memory of slow changes and the urgency of current transformations. The fluidity of the water, its softness, its shape which hugs the ground from below could make us believe in its candor: it bypasses, passive. But it is she, gently, who draws the caves and crevices. The rock is cut into clearly articulated planes and reveals the layers that have grown against each other for millennia. The wind blows from the continent and pushes back the ocean before it lies down, still fierce, on the granite. The ground deforms, the stone slabs slide under each other, the mineral erodes. Plants struggle with the arrow of time. Aurore Bagarry's landscape photographs are not reduced to geological testimony or a play of scales, they do not state or defend the promise of a theory, but they open a dialogue between the interior and the exterior, towards an immensity whose forces exceed us.