"One year ago, from March to May 2020, when Paris was entering a confinement linked to Covid-19, I decided to stage the end of a model that had reached its limits, lived so intensely. Inspired by the literature of anticipation proper to the anxious times of dystopian futures (1984 - Orwell, A Brave New World - Huxley, The Night of the Times - Barjavel), I question myself on our hopes of renewal. I am interested in this frontier between the possible and the impossible, nevertheless happened.
To give an account of the supernatural character felt at the time, I choose to divert the expected representation of documentary silver photography by a process which blurs our reference points of past, present, future, reality and fiction. A Japanese paper negative gives the photographs an aspect of another time. Subject to shooting accidents, it allows mysterious objects to appear from the sky, upsetting our certainties and casting doubt on the very rationality of what we see. The black and white emulsion coated directly on this paper gives a glimpse of its delicate texture, made of fibers of flowers and mulberry. These delicate natural elements become for a time the very real witnesses of a world that was thought to be indestructible, but whose beliefs were ultimately fragile."
Maxime Riché