Images-forêts: des mondes en extension

/ 2019-2022

This work starts from a simple observation reported in the article “Where are Europe’s last primary forests*”: primary forests no longer exist in mainland France. It is the untouched forests that survive: a natural place that has not been strongly influenced by us in recent decades. Accompanied by foresters and conservators, Léa Habourdin has spent the past two years documenting these protected places.
She then used the photosensitivity of chlorophyll to make images. One of the characteristics of the anthotype is that the print is not “fixable”, it will react eternally to the light, the more you look at the image the more it disappears.
These anthotypes are accompanied by large prints made with natural pigments. From the bright yellow of birch leaves to the pale pink of poppy petals, the image of the forests here is perennial but very evanescent. It leaves the possibility of resonating with the personal and comforting image, the fantasy that we all have of a primary forest.

*source : Diversity and Distribution, Received: 20 September 2017 / Accepted: 19 April 2018

SOLO-SHOW : Zone-i, Thorée-la-rochette, été 2021

GRANTS : CIPGP, Collège International du Grand Paris, 2019 // CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 2020