Renewed portraits of marine fauna
“With Cloé Harent, it is a Deauville of the infinitely small, molluscs, lichen, anemones which arise in these spaces never before explored by young talents: “the foreshores”, the sea line. This poetic space to which the waves abandon and maintain a whole tiny life, a strange witness to geological time”the members of the jury agree. In fact, the photographer surveyed the surrounding world and discovered beauties ignored by many and yet obvious to the eyes of this native of the South-West. His approach takes place over a long period of time, drawing its essence from the tides. The title of the series also echoes the sound we hear when we hold a shell to our ear. It invites us to anchor ourselves in the present moment, to concentrate on our perceptions and to follow our instinct.
Pour Pink noiseCloé Harent has rightly abandoned her usual documentary approach to indulge in more plastic experimentation. “I was initially selected to take portraits. And finally, it was during a walk with Laure [Serani, directrice artistique du festival Planches Contact, ndlr]on the first day, which was also my birthday, I was dazzled by everything I saw around me. At that time, I was working on portraits, and I was getting a lot of rejections. I am hypersensitive: this period was therefore very complicated for me. I then took refuge in the sea, at the water's edge, on the beach. Here, no one could say no to me”she explains, laughing. Finally, his spontaneous prints sketch iodized landscapes, “so peaceful and so beautiful”or renewed portraits of marine fauna about which we still know little.
