LANDINGS / TOUCHER TERRE

ARNAUD LESAGE

Arnaud Lesage has adopted the idea that photography has a structuring role to understand the perception of the world. It is by drawing from the archives of photographs that he produces over a long time, that he constitutes assemblies, series and sets. Landings / Toucher Terre offers some facets that the grouping of these terms suggests: landing literally consists of reaching the the ground, and therefore evokes a meeting point between two things that a vacuum separated. The word incidentally supports the idea of returning to reality, and the critical moment which corresponds to it. The term "touch" also covers a deep ambivalence: beyond tactile perception, it designates the ability to be moved, but also the act of reaching, hitting, possibly damaging or destroying. On these bases, Landings / Toucher Terre evokes a paradoxical system of interactions, and the inexorable confrontation of finitude with appetites of infinity.