Voyage en Pays du Clermontois

Voyage en Pays du Clermontois

Israel Ariño

For this series, I travelled through the villages of the Pays Clermontois, in a particular drift during which I chose to return to places without history and moments of daily life at different times of the year. I wanted to confront myself with the hazards of walking, with the desire to photograph intermediate spaces which, in a way, intrigued me.

At no time is it a question of making a moral judgment on the territories crossed. The aim is more to get rid of a whole series of codes, peremptory ideas and clichés that we associate with the knowledge of a place.

I tried to reread this territory, to short-circuit it to create a pastoral narrative full of “revelations”, where behind the surface of each image, another was hiding. Here, the images are moments of revelation of a floating temporality, they question the past at the same time as they reflect on the future. In addition to this, the work on color, a subterranean, sometimes perverse element, which proposes to prolong reality, to shake it up, to go beyond it, and in the end, to make it poetic. A reality which, by definition, is always questioned. Imagination is irrefutable.

DETAILS

42 framed prints
11 prints 65 x 55 cm
31 prints 35 x 30 cm