Photography
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…
Echoes of Nature, 20 x 30 cm, 120 four-color reproductions, a pocket binding containing: a 96-page picture book + two 24-page booklets for texts and a catalog of works, full paper binding Graphic design: Annelise Cochet / Camping sauvage
