Document:Q11593

Si/jamais proposes a set of pictures from photographic source that
change by "touching" or a mouse over. By a simple hand movement,
everything suddenly changes, a lake is drained or a building site
becomes a surging sea. The horizon, the separation, the invisible fuzzy
limit in each of these images opens up, like a hidden crack, on an
unsuspected counterproposal. These reversals challenge the visitor in
many ways. They express the built aspect of the landscape in the field
of representation and highlight the countless manipulations made
possible today by digital technology. They also highlight the ambivalent
attitude of the individual toward the natural world, the desire to
dominate it or let oneself be submerged by it. Water, omnipresent in all
the images, establishes a continuity between them and symbolizes in turn
immersion, movement and life, thanks to the many metaphors it can
produce. The work invites us to position ourselves on the side of the
if, the possible, or the never, the definitive in our relationship with
nature.