Présentation

La Rada di Augusta, in Sicily, is a story about the vestiges of turbo-capitalism, the north-south divide and the price of rapid progress.
Since the end of World War II, a complicated social tension has developed in Augusta Bay – around one of the biggest and most environmentally damaging petrochemical industrial complexes in Europe – between Catholicism and capitalism, mafia-like underground structures and polarising environmental activists.
The work uses photographic narratives to search for the anthropological core of Augusta’s (post-) industrial society – in the conviction that the relationship between environment and industry is far more than a question of politicians, engineers and pipelines. Augusta could be anywhere.

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Présentation

In the series La profondeur des roches (The depth of the rocks), Guillaume Amat literally invests the field of representation through his in situ installations, which are regularly performance-based, ranging from staging to sculpture. If the result is eminently photographic, or even pictorial, the implementation of these visual creations is rooted in Land Art. Indeed, the artist rejects all digital post-production in favour of a commitment to the field: mirrors, ropes, paper, hooks, easels and frames are brought to the site for the shots during his various trips.