Inhabiting the border
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The ecosystem crisis and ecological fragmentation reflect the levelling of our aesthetics, the isolation of various hyper-specialized and compartmentalized fields of research. "Inhabiting the border" asserts the importance of links, of interdisciplinary and interspecies relations, insofar as they preserve the primordial poetics of the living, this relationship of belonging to multiple singularities. The frontier is the place where worlds meet, and this space is a fertile refuge. This article emerges from a one-week stay from May 2nd to 11th, 2023 in the Forêt de la Massane National Nature Reserve, as a SACRe-PSL doctoral student and artist photographer. Deeply moved and inspired by the subtlety and richness of the ecosystem of this primary forest, I developed a new aesthetic technique that aims to translate the complexity of living things and the multiplicity of their intricacies: photographic assemblage. Different photographic fragments are selected or duplicated and bonded/assembled together, despite their differences, to (re)constitute a polyphonic, hybrid nature, whose shapes intertwine or not, in an alliance of opposites – which can ultimately be viewed as being very similar. The aesthetic is organic, the image vital. It evokes both art nouveau and virtual reality, and is the place where naturalistic photography meets pictorial inventiveness.
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