Marine Lanier

Éditions Poursuite

Nos feux nous appartiennent

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2016

Text by Emmanuelle Pagano

Format 21 x 28 cm

80 pages

978-2-918960-93-5

Présentation

Nos feux nous appartiennent brings together different series that echo each other. This montage explores the theme of the clan, and in its extension, the idea of belonging, through the stories that shape it, the distant imaginings to which family legends refer us.
(...) I come from a family of gardeners, landscape gardeners, nurserymen, horticulturists, florists. For five generations, the men of this clan have been organising space, trying to maintain it, to discipline it. They prune trees, carry rubbish, burn them, watch over fires, carry roots in the back of trailers, rake leaves from courtyards full of gravel, plant quickset hedges, deliver flowers, dress funerals, baptisms, birthdays, weddings, participate in all the rituals that give shape to life. The smell of the water of the flowers is something that grips the family. a perfume that amazes us. it is an echo of faded flowers, green mosses, stems cut with shears, whole sap that spreads.
Fire, the pivot of this construction - a catalytic element with a strong symbolic charge, must be understood here as a rallying figure. The landscapes of Armenia are great deserts burnt with heat. military viewpoints depopulated by the war event. places of firing and watch. places from which fire is fired. There is my brother's face covered with soot (...)