“Much more than a simple static point of view, the landscape exists mainly because we move, multiplying perspectives and daydreams. It is shaped by human movements. The paths, the roads and the various ways condition our gaze and constantly redraw the landscape we contemplate. Following them helps to change the ways of apprehending the world around us.
But all show the importance of the mental journey for contemplating, understanding a landscape: memories, desires, absences or hopes, the landscape is above all the receptacle, always moving, of ways of doing, being and seeing the world. »Marc Desportes
“This vision while moving came before I realised it, instinctively through a visual game, a discovery of what was intertwined in my frames, the car window, the road, the roadside and the landscape.
And also what the road means, to be on the move, to make a trip, in a mental state of isolation, availability, and the possibility of contemplating.
Between two places there is always a road. A road that was for me a new way to see the country where I worked , a better link to nature, fewer signs to understand, fewer people, a more subtle encounter.
Often, I spent hours in the car, moments to rest. Without the need to look, I could see lines, shapes, voids, horizons that constantly scrolled with the purring of the car. My imagination was piqued, I interpreted these forms as if to find pictorial familiarities, and all disappeared as soon as seen.
The beauty of the ephemeral …! ”
Gil Rigoulet
Landscape in Motion by Gil Rigoulet
from September 3rd to October 5th 2019
22 rue de la République
Arles
