IL FERA LONGTEMPS CLAIR CE SOIR
Élise Toïdé

Text by Magali Aubert

This texture is her 35mm film camera’s, with which she has been trying to “devour” the Jean Moulin-Les Guilands park. She wanders, with one two film rolls in her bag to charge the camera. This Canon 500 was her first camera. She likes the fact that it is not precious. The sound of the vivid day fans out and vanishes, Elise captures fragments of it, intensifies a familiar place, estranging it from a daily routine. In this place where the beats of the city can be heard in the distance, she seeks an incomplete representation that leaves room for the imagination to wander. She wants this place to be hers yet elusive. “The images must be traces, like ghosts. At first, I just see empty meaningless shapes then they progressively become lively. They begin to make sense, to belong to me as I return. As time passes, these shapes mingle, are transformed and distorted. By coming back regularly, I set up a repetition, I create a never-ending story, a perpetual renewal, pretty close to the renewal of a daily routine.
The horizon has changed since she began this series in 2013. The white facades of the towers located below the “Quartier de la Noue” have been renovated and now look ochre, behind this road so simple and so frequently followed.
In 1901, Anna de Noailles used to enjoy the shadows and watch for the carps in the Parc Monceau. Monceau, Montreuil, a century and a decade. A movement from the east to the west within Paris, which brings together two women who capture the familiar landscapes that dazzle them.  And yet something in life has changed.

First edition
17,5 X 24 cm
Cover with flaps
108 pages
74 photographs
French - English
Février 2019
ISBN: 978-2-490740-02

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