The Radiance project aims to create an archive of light, and by extension of colour. At sunrise and/or sunset, two key moments of the day with regard to the chromatic variations of light, Mustapha Azeroual takes photographs of the same landscape with a camera. He takes several shots on the same film plane; negatives that he then assembles digitally. The making of the images, through this double superposition, transforms
the landscape into an abstract form, and reduces it to a horizon line. At the end of this synthesis, the artist retains four or five images that he transfers onto a single support, the lenticular, a technical process which, associated with movement, allows for a linked reading. Each movement of the viewer re-enacts the repetitive cycle of natural light. In a privileged relationship with the work, two people side by side can never perceive the same nuances. In this way, Radiance goes beyond the notion of the photographic moment, associated with the single image, to address the sequence in moving images. An experience of time, which Mustapha Azeroual combines with the experience of light as a synthesis of colours. Like these points of light at dawn and dusk, Radiance is a sensation, an image-experience stretched to infinity.
Radiance #8 Finisterrae was realized in 2022 at the end of the territory on the peninsula of Crozon in Brittany.