“What one must do, therefore, is to go and see it, in order to understand what may be the texture of what gives it an existence, that is, its properties, its singularities, and to explore what had formed, informed, and deformed it.”
J.-C. Bailly, Le Dépaysement (Éditions du Seuil)
I thought I knew my own country because it must be said, “this is where I’m from.” However, I have now realized that I barely know this France, as if it had escaped me or had moved away when I wasn’t paying attention. So here are some excerpts from my travels that keep nagging at me.
Begun in Sète in 2009 during a residency for the festival Images Singulières, this series is still a work in progress.
Bertrand Meunier
He was born in 1965 in Nevers.
Betrand Meunier’s work is constructed over long term following a method close to a cinematic-topographic approach. Through meticulous study of the terrain, scripting series of images and combining them into sequences, Betrand Meunier distances himself from raw information and assumes an often oneiric, and yet always “concerned,” subjectivity. .
1994 First trips in Asia and Chine.
2001 Laureate of Leica Oskar-Barnack Award.
2005 Publication of Sang de la Chine, with Pierre Haski, Grasset, Paris.
2006 He leaves Agence Vu et joins Tendance Floue.
2007 Laureate of prix Niépce.
2008 Exhibition of Paysans ordinaires et Erased at Museum of Chalon-sur-Saône.
2009-2015 Residences in France for the project Je suis d’ici.
http://tendancefloue.net/bertrandmeunier
