One human nature

 

Solitary and anonymous figures depicted as immersed in space seem to oddly measure oneself with the environment, looking for a position and even more for a fair dimension. The photographer attends to these distant scenes to build up a moment, a suspended time as expression of being a human in a certain place. In a way landscape is there but would it still be there without a tangible presence? What is its real role on this planet? Are we daydreamers there for it, among the waves, the trees, the rocks? Into the nature. Words are like musical notes they need a pause after a while. Imagination doesn’t, and so images flow everywhere. Catch them is a possibility for Marilia Destot to capture time. «In this selected series, and often in my work, I isolate one character in the landscape, playing on scales and shapes. I pay attention to both confrontation and fusion between human and nature. […] My photography work focuses, through portrait and landscapes series, on the relation and perceptions of the model to his environment. Exploring in a pictorial and sensitive way a definition of the photographic medium: a fragmented and subjective vision of time, space and memory», wrote us the French photographer whose research is also combined with a careful study of the colors. An approach that, thanks to a soft and unobtrusive use of light, enhances tones and half tones of matter, gradiations rather than shadows. Shapes that become bodies, details look like miracles in this hidden yet wonderful world, a space visible on condition that slows the passage of time.

 

 

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© Courtesy of Marilia Destot

www.mariliadestot.com

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