Moselle. Do you know where to find a little piece of the Meuse in Metz?

The buildings are placed on the lawn, scattered as they might be in a village. But without the streets or the people passing by, without the doorbells or the mailboxes. Only electric or telephone wires connect the church, the town hall-school or this guard post without a train. Here, the water tower, gray, almost white, rises into a sky framed by a horizontal wire. There, an abandoned house exposes its facade beneath the tenuous streaks of overhead networks. The rural Meuse is represented here in the past tense, but its pulse still seems to beat.

This is the exhibition of photographs by Dominique Ferveur proposed by the Metz Photo association (Photo Forum) at the Jean-Marie-Pelt park, in Metz.

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Until January 31, the public can go to the park to discover these panels, like a “journey from village to village”, in a unique Lorraine department. The photographer traveled his territory for several months and decided to “report” on it from state buildings and deserted villages, “bearing witness to a rural economy in decline”.

Let's walk in the woods in February

Frontal photographs, a slight white veil suggesting the passing of time, and threads to connect the images and the population, this is what makes the originality of this exhibition dedicated to the “beauty and fragility” of the Meuse. .

From February until April 11, 2025, a new exhibition will be offered outdoors at Parc Jean-Marie-Pelt, 4^e part of the cycle “Prose and poetry”. This time, she will suggest thinking about the vulnerability of our forests. “Let's walk in the woods/See the forest as it goes”, photographic work by RetMarkus, depicts an off-piste world “mysterious, shamanic, aesthetic”, by contrasting “twists, crashes, tearing, thirsts , the mutilations” of time and men. For those who leave “the paths marked out for Sunday walks, sylvan life is much more chaotic” than one imagines, warns the artist. The opening will take place on Sunday February 2, at 11 a.m., at the Jean-Marie-Pelt gardens, in Metz.

(1) Tremblement de ciel is a golden flame celebrating the friendship between France and Japan. Its double, The Flame of Liberty, is installed in Tokyo.

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