The series Angle Mort questions the landscape beyond its visible surface, beyond its quietness, in those depths marked by the shadows of history. Here, the forest and the trees become witnesses and a living testimony of history.
They are imbued with memory, with ghostly presences that history has left behind. They traverse a disappearing past that seeks, in the present and in art, an experience that can generate an artefact against oblivion. The works in this series are made from casts of branches, trunks or bark of birch trees, the sacred tree of the Celts, the link between the terrestrial and the celestial world. It is the tree of knowledge that also carries the horrors of history.
From the forest to the human, from the past to the present, from death to life, from the technological image to the handprint, this series reinterprets the notion of monument, not in the fossilization of history but in a motility, necessary for the movement of memory.
Within Lisa Sartorio’s work, Angle Mort continues to question the photographic medium in its function of testimony and information, at a time when these two roles seem increasingly threatened.
Work references :
Exhibitions
Le champ des impossibles, Écomusée du Perche, Saint-Cyr-la-Rosière, 2022
En Rémanence, Galerie Binome, Paris, 2021
Publication
Rencontre Lisa Sartorio & Christian Gattinoni, Les carnets, Filigranes editions, 2022