TITLE: Erotisme érosion

Éros and Thanatos
Beyond the fear of death and principle of pleasure that many have opposed through history, lies a hidden truth that french philosopher Baptste Morizot tries to reveal in his book “Maniere d’etre vivant” (“Ways of beings alive”). Our very nature is composed of an infinite number of layers: layers of billions of years of experiences, emotions, lives, deaths, stories, mythologies, … ways of being alive. This thickness lies everywhere in the world, it’s what constitutes the multiple realities of it, it’s richness.
I believe humans are somehow connected to this world and depend on it to survive and to find meaning, even if our (European) recent history has tried to make us believe otherwise. This series is a search for a way to capture that spiritual, emotional, geological, and genealogical and physical link.
Body meets earth. Warm and soft meets cold and rigid. Life meets inanimate. Intimate meets sublime. Yet, there is a flow, a stream that binds it all together.
Maybe accepting and starting to see the way each and everyone of us finds its place within that drift might answer some existential interrogations that make us human, and that science might have gone a little far to try explaining. Maybe simply trusting and enjoying the fact that our bodies are the recipient of billions of years of life, might bring us a calmness and confidence on which we could start building something new.

AUTHOR: Antonin Roure (France)

2nd year of master student in art critique, French and passionate about photography since I was 10, I explore and capture what the essence of landscape, body, architecture is to me. I started photographying birds in the botanic garden in front of my apartment, which helped me survive the city in my youth. And now I love to walk for days in the mountains, get lost, and find my place through my lens. The body is for me to be approached in a similar way, it’s shy, and its depth can only be revealed if you spend enough time with it, sinking yourself into its density. Landscapes as well as bodies are accumulations of layers, an infinite number of layers, that co-exist, each telling a story, and my place is to listen to them, catch them with my camera.
I love photography and am nourished by the diversity of other works I see every day, but mostly by my own experience of nature, city, people and time.