beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

For several years, Sylvie Bonnot has been conducting an artistic and documentary research on French forests, gathering images in mainland France and French Guiana. The wide gaps that characterizes both of the lands are linked here to show the complex reality of landscapes and the industry. « From the near forest, in Burgundy and Savoie, she tried to measure and transcribe human confrontation, in both the forestry and the hydroelectric development. […] she puts forward the flora, fauna, humanity relationship in its untamed condition. Machines and installations come together with the organic world in a brutal way yet always poetic, crossed by a serpent molt, and fleeing animality. Under that name (molt), Sylvie Bonnot transforms photographic prints for about a decade, by pulling away the gelatin on which the image was formed, from the paper, to give birth to an hybrid world ». (Excerpt from a text by Sophie Eloy and François Michaud). The book opens on a wide ensemble of « molts », photographic creation crafted on a strong documentary research on the differents state of nowadays forest exploitation. It resumes on what is called a small atlas of the forest, enabling the lector to discover and follow the documentary research that allows the artist to form her body of work. 

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