Description
Combining observation, wandering, and experimentation, Myrtille Bouvret’s photographs emerge from a direct relationship with the Alpine environment. Ice, frost, and snow become a record of fleeting presences and the landscape’s transient states.
"Les seuils des eaux" is a collection of photographs taken in the Alps during a research and creative residency conducted in collaboration with the Altitudes network.
These images accompany an artistic process based on sampling techniques, data-capture devices, and experiments focused on the most fragile manifestations of water.
In this research, the mountain becomes a studio, the cold a tool, and water a living material.
The images play an essential role in the creative process. They become research tools, spaces for observation, sensitive archives, and extensions of the artistic gesture.
Presented around Lac Vert in Passy, the photographs resonate with a landscape shaped by water and glacial movements. They reawaken a different way of looking at the alpine landscape through subtle traces, vanished states, and phenomena whose fragile persistence is captured in the image. The photographs thus function as thresholds between different temporalities of the territory.
The exhibition brings together journeys, contemplations, and experiences in which one never knows exactly where nature ends and the artwork begins. The thresholds of water refer to these transitional zones where materials emerge, circulate, dissolve, or persist. Between appearance and disappearance, the photographs open up a space of attention to that which remains in flux, precarious, and in the making.
The sculptures and drawings resulting from this research will be presented at the CAUE in Annecy as part of the exhibition “Retenir l’eau, encore un peu” (Holding Back the Water, Just a Little Longer), beginning October 8.
