Experiments: between collage and colorization
It is moreover this evocative power which unites the authors of this 8th edition. Favoring artistic research, osmosis between mediums and aesthetic experimentation over the simple illustration of reality, everyone reveals unique works enhancing the charm of the village. Like a sensitive escape between white walls and the autumn sun. Specializing in collage, Anna Muller (Atelier de la Galerie Fort) pays homage to the dadas and surrealists by superimposing analog images to compose chimerical creatures made of pieces of architecture and the organic. At the heart of his works, like an echo in space, Dalí’s presence emerges, in a mustache or an unusual assemblage. A fan of the same techniques, Lia Rochas-Páris (Galerie Anne G.) is interested in materials, which she considers to carry the vestiges of an era. Combining textures, figurative shapes and subtle nuances, she creates compositions that are as abstract as they are captivating.
Colorizing her images by hand, Lebanese artist Rima Samman (Teatro Art I Joia) highlights the feeling of nostalgia caused by the distance that separates her from her family. Like a filter reviving emotions, she adorns her memories with pop tones and rejuvenates the archives with strokes of pencil. An approach similar to that of Éloise Labarbe-Lafon. The 2024 winner of the competition open call InCadaqués presents, in the ruins of Coral de la Gala, Motel 42. A series of self-portraits made on black and white film. Coloring the scenes with oil paint, the photographer reveals atmospheres and gives rise to sensations. Among the pastel tones, the evocation of a road trip timeless emerges, between the white of the sheets, the screen of the television sets, and the rosy cheeks of a young woman lost in mysterious contemplation.
The sublime village
In the charming cobbled streets of the village, the Uttería Gallery welcomes The dying man who would not diewinning series of the Fotografia Feminina InCadaqués x Fisheye Prize. On the white walls of the space, the contrasting prints detail the touching story that the photographer dedicates to her father, infected with HIV during a blood transfusion. Higher still, in the heart of the alleys, the compositions of Chieko Chiraishi adorn the walls of the Santa Rita Gallery. In the darkroom, the Japanese author creates dark images with blurred contrasts. In the gray universe that she erects, the details can be guessed – the contours of a plant, the velvety feel of a coat, the colossal silhouette of a whale – to better free themselves from a reductive reality and give birth , in the noise of the world, to a form of contemplation.
Finally, among the waves and the foam, on the Port d’Alguer beach and at Natàlia Tomàs’ Atelier, Christopher Barraja’s photos prolong a summer which seems, here too, to refuse to go away. Under his Nice sun, the photographer captures bodies and horizons, follows the course of a drop of water on a back and the languor of eyelids which close, in an imperious torpor. On the walls, the orange tones echo a familiar light – that of the Mediterranean bay. A two-step immersion that you can’t help but savor.
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