Maria Léna - FAUVE
Fauve explores our ties to the outdoors and our relationship with intuition. It’s not a question of an impulse towards nature, but towards the living. Beings and things. The wind, the rock, the fox. Otherness. It’s a call to reaffect our senses. To reaffirm our listening. Reaching out for that something inside us, inscribed deep in our bodies, deep in our bellies. Something instinctual, animalistic. An open attention that induces other ways of being in the world and entering into relationships.
To succeed in making the experience of emancipation sensitive. That is the intention of this project. How can we break new ground? How do you become the architect of your own world? How do external elements unfold within us? And vice versa. Landscapes enter us, as we become one with them. The images in this series are like fragments, snippets of stories of women who refuse to shut themselves away. They act with the powerful intention and living strength of moving towards something that resembles them. The color photographs represent this quest, this inner essence. The black-and-white images evoke the idea of passage. These monochromes constitute a space of circulation reserved for symbols and rituals.
