The research of the French video artist Anne-Charlotte Finel (b. 1986 in Paris, lives and works in Paris) focuses on borderline states of landscape, wildlife and vision. Her dreamlike images bear witness to natural phenomena on the edge of human perception. Often working at sunrise or sunset, she explores the emergence of new, sensitive relationships between humans, animals and plants in interstitial landscapes.
In the video Sphinx, which was shot at dusk, the subject almost eludes the camera’s eye. The artist has tracked the appearance of the convolvulus hawk-moth, a migrant moth that feeds on phlox paniculata, a perennial with large clusters of flowers. A great traveller adept at hovering, the moth here takes on a spectral appearance as it forages for opulent flowers in shimmering tones. The resulting images seem burnt and blurred, the colours are saturated – elements that combine into an aesthetic renegotiation between documentary recording and pictorial abstraction.
- Music: Voiski
- Production: Fondation Bugnon & LUGA Art Trail
- With the support of the Institut national pour le patrimoine architectural – INPA
