synopsis
Oreille coupée is a work constructed in the form of an ecological and sociological investigation into the traces of the wolf in the Massif Central.
"Two legs announced its return. One had been placed in a plastic bag hung on the cemetery gate. The other, hanging on the threshold of the town hall. They belonged to the same animal. A few days before, a flock of sheep had been attacked. We knew then that the beast was back.
I came across the broken stride of Oreille Coupé, while I was sitting in the large reading room of the Departmental Archives. A she-wolf. One of the last of her species before the long absence. I probably lacked imagination, because I did not suspect that the animal could escape from the legend to return to inhabit our lands. However, every day the wolf disperses. Yesterday there, today here.
From the house, I watch the forest that gently descends to the river. Something is happening, something indefinable and invisible. An unexpected event is sneaking in. »
In the form of an ecological and sociological investigation, Oreille coupée penetrates the woods, follows its edge, this border that the farmer disputes with wild animals.
The new book by Julien Coquentin with a remarkable work of cyanotypes, landscapes and portraits !
Photos of the book
technical information
Publisher : Lamaindonne
2023
Dimensions : 20 x 25cm
152 pages
82 photographies en couleurs
2023
Dimensions : 20 x 25cm
152 pages
82 photographies en couleurs
about Julien Coquentin
by the author
Between 2012 and 2023, I published five books with Lamaindonne publishing, which combined my appetite for documentary and an attention paid to my loved ones and my immediate environment. In 2013, an urban wandering in the streets of Montreal: Early on a Sunday Morning. In 2014, Eight Days in New York and in 2016, Black Seasons, in which I explore the ties that hold us to our native land - a series notably exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La-Roche-sur-Yon (2016), at Imagesingulières in Sète (2017) and during the Photographic Summer of Lectoure (2019). In 2020 I published Tropiques, a fiction, mixing photographs and several short stories in the manner of a tale, exhibited during the Lectoure Photographic Summer (2021) and finally Oreille coupée (2023), a work constructed in the form of an ecological and sociological investigation on the traces of the wolf in the Massif Central; a work that is fortunate to benefit from a cycle of exhibitions (2023-2025) in the Diagonal network (Carré d'Art gallery in Chartres-de-Bretagne, La Chambre in Strasbourg and Le Centre Claude Cahun in Nantes). This same series will benefit from an exciting media broadcast with a portfolio published in M et Zadig and an invitation to the microphone of Marie Richeux, on France Culture, during the program "Par les temps qui courent". In 2023, Mat Jacob and Monica Santos are offering me a writing residency at Zone I in Loir-et-Cher, with the design of a novel, Gast, co-published by Filigranes/Zone i. Also in 2024, I will publish a book entitled L’Aval with Origini edizioni, in which I will once again mix words with photography in a very restricted area of my geography, bringing together themes that are dear to me, particularly those of the forest and childhood.
Apart from my long series, a member of the Hans Lucas collaborative platform since 2017, I regularly work with the French press as well as in artistic mediation with the Prodiges association, particularly in remand centers, nursing homes, GEMs and colleges.
Apart from my long series, a member of the Hans Lucas collaborative platform since 2017, I regularly work with the French press as well as in artistic mediation with the Prodiges association, particularly in remand centers, nursing homes, GEMs and colleges.
book in my collection
Publisher : Lamaindonne
2023 (1st edition)
signed
2023 (1st edition)
signed