Aurore Bagarry, De la côte, 2022-2025 © Aurore Bagarry

For the last fifteen years or so, Aurore Bagarry has been photographing the sculptural formations of the glaciers of the Alps, the rocky coastline of the English Channel and, more recently, the Atlantic coast, from the Gironde and Brittany to Martinique and Guadeloupe.

The repertoire of forms produced in this way harkens back to a practice already widely used by the pioneers of photography in the late nineteenth century – typologies, herbariums or inventories – which often aimed as much to document nature as to domesticate it. While the incredible nature of these expeditions has been blurred by advances in means of transport, the imposing photographic equipment that she still uses today comes very close. With the view camera, it’s the same obsession with detail, the refraction of colours and the rustle of light that she tries to reconnect with. Aurore Bagarry’s photographs take us to the confluence of elements that are seemingly impossible to reconcile, to the vertigo of time, the time of an Earth several billion years old that encounters and experiences the time of human beings, infinitesimal in comparison.

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