Book-signing of Les Bords Réels
With Adrien Selbert
Saturday, December the 18th at 3.00pm
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Laboratoire Initial
62 Av. Jean Baptiste Clément
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
As one of the finalists of Prix Nadar 2021 Les Bords Réels (Le Bec en l’air, 2021) interrogates the traces of the war in Bosnia and the possibility of a post-war aftermath. Initial Labo welcomes its author, Adrien Selbert, for a book-signing.
The Bosnian war ended 25 years ago and yet the country seems to be plunged into a lethargy where everyone is wandering in their own time and in their beliefs. The dead and the living, the Bosnians, the Serbs and the Croats, the veterans of the conflict and the youth born in its rubble. Bosnia revives old demons, plays with fire. It is no longer war, it is not peace.
How to translate into photography the strange feeling of a time that never ends dying, the muted violence that runs through the country? How to summon the ghosts that stand in the background of the images?
In this sense, this work is a state of time, more than a state of place. Les Bords Réels (The Real Edges) is the image of Bosnia today: fragmentary, ghostly, disoriented, vibrant and chaotic at the same time. The photographer takes the bodies as witnesses. Gestures and postures translate the way the country stands, revealing the splintering into myriad communities and beliefs, as if after a blast.
By investing this evanescent territory, it is the very limits of his practice – documentary photography – that Adrien Selbert challenges here.
Far from the usual photographic work on survivors, this series offers a very personal vision of the permanence of the conflict. (J.-B. Chastand, M, Le magazine du Monde)
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