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Ondes

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 06:28:19 +0000

Ondes documents the flows of energy that shape our lives and overwhelm our powers of perception. The series addresses the link between our origin and our ultimate destination. The same link that unites us to distant times, to the first forms of life and to the cosmos, in a sense of interconnection and interdependence. Ondes by Bénédicte Blondeau presents a vision of reality that does not forget that it also refers to what we cannot see. It’s an exploration of the elements based on the principle that everything is in perpetual transformation, whether we are capable of perceiving it or not.

The project Ondes by Bénédicte Blondeau was supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, República Portuguesa DGArtes, Espace Contretype, Mulhouse Photo Bienniale.

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van A naar B

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:42:49 +0000

The edition van A naar B consists of a double folded image: Boat trip from Gran Canaria to Tenerife, with inside detachable texts. The texts are extracts from Glow by Sandor Marai and On seeing and noticing by Alain de Botton.
The story starts as a concrete, clear tale and ends in an amalgam of absurd sentences that somehow fit together. van A naar B focuses on the road – or deviation – between departure and arrival. In the same way that thoughts behave when considering a landscape, the spectator will also find himself erring through the story. At the same time the spectator can get lost when browsing through the texts.

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Ce qu’il reste

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 22:06:41 +0000

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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Tidal Horizon

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:08:12 +0000

(…) Our awareness of patterns in nature, like those of the seasons and the tides, is ancient, but the way that we have negatively affected those cycles, though disputed in some quarters, is a more recent development, and one that appears increasingly hard to ignore. Matthieu Litt’s Tidal Horizon is, in the first instance, a consideration of one particular cyclical process, made obvious by the title of the work, and, in the larger sense, it addresses the human relationship with nature. However, Litt’s approach eschews the documentary in favor of a refined visual and metaphorical vocabulary, giving us new ways to see these cycles, along with newways to think about what our place in the natural order might ultimately be.He suggests the circularity of these patterns both in the structure of the book overall, and also in terms of what he has photographed, motifs that evoke reoccurrence and closure. However, they also indicate a kind of disturbance, perhaps calling the stability of these natural patterns into question. — Darren Campion

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