Of its Initiation RoomsFrom the white lacquered meditation rooms, through which she made her remarkable entry into the art world in 1968, to the large white landscapes of her photographic series Nostalgia Made in 2019, could Tania Mouraud have made desolation the foundation of her protean work?
Desolation of landscapes scarred by industrial agriculture and mining (Scars, 2014). Desolation of the gaze mired in the murky waters of the marshes (Dark movie, 2021) or lost between sky and earth in the blurred reflections of nature photographed on the shimmering and crumpled surface of the plastic tarpaulins wrapping the hay bales (Bordeland, 2007-2010).
The five series presented by Tania Mouraud at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, as part of the 4the The Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire edition confronts us with the wounded beauty of the world. Beneath the apparent beauty and almost pictorial aesthetic of the images lurks the "devil's beauty".
Stéphanie Dulout
“De Natura” – Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
478, Le Château, Chaumont-sur-Loire
Until February 27, 2022
Arnaud Montagard, a French photographer who has been living in the United States for over ten years, is a pure product of street photography.
