Elsa Stubbé - 'Les extraterrestres ont mangé mon jardin'
12 Sep 2018 - 04 Nov 2018
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Contretype - 1 Avenue de la Jonction, 1 1060
This is a photographic portfolio that mixes together images from my frequent wanderings through nature reserves or places where the landscape has been returned it to its original wild state, and archive images from popular-science publications.
I began this ongoing project at the end of 2016. It is a poetic, personal study of the imaginary world and story-telling based on the natural world, and the link between them and humankind in Western culture. It shows how the natural world has influenced our story-telling and thus our imagination, and how both of these have in turn influenced our natural landscapes.
Against the current background of our imaginations “trapped” in outdated Romanticism, of our relationship with the “wild” and our conferring of sacred status on the wilderness, here I am trying to create new, non-linear stories, whose ends are merely the beginnings of something new. Thus, each viewer of my images can re-order them as he or she likes.
I began this ongoing project at the end of 2016. It is a poetic, personal study of the imaginary world and story-telling based on the natural world, and the link between them and humankind in Western culture. It shows how the natural world has influenced our story-telling and thus our imagination, and how both of these have in turn influenced our natural landscapes.
Against the current background of our imaginations “trapped” in outdated Romanticism, of our relationship with the “wild” and our conferring of sacred status on the wilderness, here I am trying to create new, non-linear stories, whose ends are merely the beginnings of something new. Thus, each viewer of my images can re-order them as he or she likes.