Nuit Blanche (Signed)

Emilie Traverse
Nuit Blanche (Signed)

Photographs: Emilie Traverse

Publisher: Païen

48 pages

Year: 2018

Price: 45 €

Comments: Stapled softcover, 27 x 20 cm. Signed. Printing in colors on glossy paper. Perfect condition. Out of print.

*Shortlist Prix du livre d'auteur, Rencontres d'arles 2018*

After a slideshow for The Smell of Dust (2014) and a printed journal for the Levallois Prize selection/nomination (2016), Emilie Traverse has again found a way to revive her Chemin de Fer project, as she works to constrain her images to different media. Images extracted from a nocturnal and hallucinated photographic wandering, Chemin de Fer becomes the work Nuit Blanche; a mutation with 6 hands in collaboration with PAÏEN.

Like the blurred memories following a drink, the objects become symbols to be deciphered, the figures floating, the perspectives turned upside down, the reality uncertain. In an effort to remember, Emilie Traverse's photographs - like the evasive memory of events - are pushed into the recesses of their materiality. A game of back and forth focus and framing that takes us into the hallucinated vision of subjects that the camera struggles to capture.