In the solo exhibition that Les Photographiques dedicates to Anaïs Tondeur, titled Ce que la Terre fait à l’image, the project Fiori di fuoco (2024), developed in collaboration with the philosopher Michael Marder during an artist residency produced and curated by Spot in the Terra dei Fuochi, is also on view.
The artistic practice of photographer and artist Anaïs Tondeur developed from a pivotal point: the moment when photography, called upon to document the ecological crisis, revealed itself as a material archive. In the face of the urgency of societal, climatic, and environmental upheavals, each image she creates questions the very condition of photography: what becomes of the image when the world it records is profoundly transformed?
This approach primarily involves a shift in photography, from an essentially representational mode to an operational practice. Thus, each photographic gesture becomes a sensory experience directed towards the invisible or neglected entities that inhabit and animate living environments. Ruderal plants, molecules, and diffuse radiation become the very protagonists of the image. Plant life and the marks left on its surface by human activity act upon it, surfacing in the image like latent presences. The print becomes a surface of inscription where these beings find a way to manifest themselves, to leave a trace, to find their voice.