Exposure
Created In Situ
in collaboration with theater and festival teams

Photos // Acrobatic bodies // Landscapes

Or how to capture fleeting apparitions through photography, playing on the specific nature of acrobats to transfigure, surprise or disturb the gaze fixed on a landscape, an ecosystem.

Within the Libertivore Company, I have woven and developed a close link between live performance, choreographic circus and landscape. The first 3 shows, Hêtre, Phasmes and Fractales, were born from the observation of human nature in resonance with nature. Also, Hêtre and Phasmes were created indoors but I immediately wanted them to be able to adapt to public spaces, especially natural spaces. I had not imagined to what extent the inscription of these shows in these spaces would increase their poetic force. We experienced many moments of grace during these outdoor performances. The shows sometimes seemed "sublimated", as accomplices of a place, an environment, a landscape. The landscape was also carried, magnified by this artistic gesture. The audience then became both companion and witness to these unique moments of symbiosis. [...]

What could be better than the immediacy of photography to capture these fleeting moments while playing on the specificity of the acrobats?
to transfigure, surprise or disturb the gaze then placed in a landscape, an ecosystem.
Perhaps a way of re-enchanting a place in its broadest sense: human and landscape heritage, in the heart of nature
like cities.
Fanny Soriano

On the lookout for furtive apparitions

Apparitions aims to invent human, playful or disturbing representations within a landscape. It is about creating
mirages capable of capturing the gaze, using the unique potential permitted by acrobatic techniques: representing the impossible,
defy gravity, blend into an environment. These paintings can exist just as well at the bend of a forest as in the
daily life of the city, in the middle of a field or an industrial zone, buried underground or alongside the top of a
monument. The bodies will be staged to interact in a unique and sensitive way with a site, whether natural or urban.

Explore the photo medium

Approaching a new aspect of creation, we are here taking hold of photographic art to continue to explore
the extent of the dramaturgical possibilities of choreographic circus, beyond the time of the performance. It is a posteriori that the spectator/viewer is summoned, called to feel these intimate explorations of the body and the landscape.
This new entry point into circus material also allows the circus to express its poetic singularity in the visual field, at a time when new technologies make photo and video omnipresent in daily life.