about the work

This abstract work highlights the chaotic accumulation of crevasses in the Mallet glacier, flowing below the imposing Grandes Jorasses (Mont-Blanc massif).

The composition follows a ternary form. In the background, the illuminated glacier reveals its summer wounds. Deep, black wounds scar the giant's body, battered by the onslaught of the summer sun. The scene is sublime: disturbing yet hypnotic. In a sort of white-and-blue cacophony, we hear the muffled sound of collapsing seracs reshaping the landscape, day after day. On this ocean of ice, you can feel the powerful breath of the gusts of wind rushing down the face of the Jorasses... nothing is frozen, everything is alive.

The work is balanced by the foreground and background, which define this luminous center. In the distance, part of the glacier is in shadow, where the contrasts are more subtle, between black and grey. And from the heights of a shaded ridge, two mineral curiosities observe the centuries-old flow of frozen water. These original shapes give way to dreamlike abandon. On the right, I can see a guardian watching over this cold immensity, a bit like a stray. To his left, I perceive the form of a couple of lovers strolling along the ridge, amazed by the spectacle they are contemplating.

In the most abstract forms that nature offers, I reconstruct, through my photography, little stories; I restore, by touches, sensations, impressions. This work is in dialogue with aesthetic experiments such as Pollock's Abstract Expressionism: the glacier spontaneously recomposes its lines in the daily clatter of unpredictable, anarchistic movements.