CHRONIQUES DE L’OISEAU PERDU - Christine Lefebvre

“Photographer Christine Lefebvre’s images seem more tied to the body than to language. They are akin to magnetic fields that converge forces, affecting their senses and directions. The artist deploys them between the pages of a book she has constructed like a poem, its white spaces exposing them to the openness of meaning. The photographs are visions snatched from the passage of time. During her walks, far from the city and from people, what the photographer feels rising like sap on contact with a tree, a cliff or a glacier is fixed freehand, in a few seconds and in impulsive fragments.
The choice of the bird as the protagonist of his chronicles stems from the memory of reading a famous Persian mystical tale written in the 11th century. The Conference of Birds tells the epic tale of a group of lost birds in search of truth. The photographs present immemorial landscapes punctuated by the beating of birds’ wings, contrasting with the solid reliefs of petrified landscapes.”

Text by Marguerite Pilven.

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