Fireworks
France
2018Artiste Invité
In Greek, photos stands for “light”, and graphein means “to paint”, “to draw”. To draw with light, 180 years after Henry Fox Talbot and in a time of digital and visual overflow, is to question photography by reflecting on the etymology of the term and taking advantage of modern tools. The traditional fireworks show that takes place on the 15th of August becomes the object of a study through photographs. Trajectories and flashes created by the rockets across the sky are immortalised following no specific design. During photo processing, images are inverted. The prints are now showing illuminated trails that were left behind by the rockets and, all together, they form an ensemble of variations close to drawings engraved at dry point.
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About the artist
Sandrine Marc was born in 1979 in Rodez, France. She lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. Her work was shown in several art centres and institutions, such as the Centre d’Art Contemporain Photographique – Villa Pérochon in Niort, at the Stimultania gallery in Strasbourg, and at the Centre de Photographie in Lectoure. Since 2012, she conducts an educational program of introduction to photography.