1st of August

The first of August saw the opening of a new exhibition at the Collegial St Croix - it displays the work of Artist Photographer Brigette Olivier.

 

 

 

This is a direct translation from the French description of this exhibition- I will do mine after.

After three weeks of residence in Loudon graduated from April to June 2013, the photographer Brigitte Olivier present from 1 August to 29 September 2013, the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix, the fruit of his work and her approach to stroll through the streets loudunaises. Thus during the three weeks at the discretion of discoveries, it has captured the details of the loudunaise life, those very same, that by passing, we do not look ..."The route to photographic memory is a succession of encounters with history, geography and time that takes place not in the walker in search of traces.This route image compensates for thousands of accumulated and buried beneath the streets of the city-palimpsest, invisible way. These successive circulations that for centuries have shaped face in Loudun, fit into life and the contemporary landscape.Exposure To Memory fits in my artistic process revealed an accumulation of fragments, isolated and combined to create a new strolling grounds, a one-time appointments which figures play a close they do not have in reality.Make this visible the photograph reality is feed intimacy in approaching subjects, assert the nature of places and let arise details like little secrets to turn a corner.Figurations immortalized in their body or in their mineral plant envelope enter pause in the delicate shift from one representation to interpretation.Subject transmission takes on the heritage of freedom to acquire various forms, serial entities for stone mosaic on the floor, portraits in gold or silent landscapes of identity as kindergartens, within reach.Transfigured memory revisited submits to the recognition of a territory where you live.

I will now try to give a short synopsis of what I believe the exhibition is about.

Mme Olivier spent three weeks earlier in the year capturing images of every day things that we pass by during our normal day to day life but do not really see them, their beauty or the way they just meld into our modern life. She has included images of carved stone facades that depict the history of the imagery used for both religious and pagan purposes, flora and fauna both wild and  cultivated for competition.



 

This is such a wonderful venue for this sort of exhibition, the people of Loudun are very fortunate.