beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Echoes of Nature

Manuela Marques

In recent years, Manuela Marques has developed photographic and video works focusing on manifestations of natural phenomena. She has stayed on several islands in the Azores archipelago on various occasions to work on tellurism and volcanism, which are particularly prevalent in this region of the world.

She creates her photographic and video works based on observations and visual experiments, as in her polyptych Topography, which she produced at the site of the volcanic eruption on the island of Faial (Capelinhos). Her work is also based on scientific archives (the Records series, for example, or the video installation RAS).

She continued this research in France, notably during a residency at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec, focusing on working with soil samples (Extraction, a kind of geological core sampling) or light captures (Ephémères).

Links are forged between the images, as if traversed by seismic waves whose underground vibrations spread to reach the surface of things, to reach us. Echoes of nature...

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Et le bleu du ciel dans l’ombre

Manuela Marques / Gilles A. Tiberghien

And the blue of the sky in Manuela Marques' shadow revisits the unique experience of landscape that the artist was able to develop at the invitation of the Lodève museum. Rather than favoring large photographs with spectacular views—which the Larzac plateaus or the surroundings of Lake Salagou easily inspire—she preferred to experiment with a more intimate and sensitive approach to landscape. Observation, movement, and the collection of elements (stones, wood, plants) are an integral part of the development of the work. The artist then incorporated these collections into a new kind of botanical illustration or into large photographic compositions where optical illusions, black mirrors, and reflections create a new perspective: between the vision of a landscape and the imagination it inspires. In a way, she reinvents a landscape through its intrinsic elements.

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