Eve, la montagne et la jeune fille

Thomas Klotz recalls childhood and the anxieties that come with it, by referencing his twelve-year-old daughter, Eve. Devoid of narrative dimension, this implicit portrait takes shape through anonymous images, "punctuation exercises," where walls, volumes, materials, voids colors and shadows are all surfaces of projection as a silent inventory.
In counterpoint, the full-length photograph of the young girl, with her eyes pointed at her father / the objective, marks a frontal return to the human figure in the artist's work, which still tends toward a sort of pictorial abstraction. This portrait combines a certain number of visual reminiscences, incarnating childhood, resurgence of the floral motif and of the color yellow, golden, which, from a certain, metaphorical point of view, refers to the ephemeral character of nature and, by extension, to this transitory age "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.". Thomas Klotz shows "secret passages," and "ghosts", and finds coherence in these mysterious affinities, these underground connections, which are in fact specific to his daughter’s world.

First edition
18 x 24 cm
Hardcover
116 pages
62 images
Français - Anglais
Direction éditoriale : Caroline de greef
Design : EYD
Janvier 2021