The media are not toys… they can be entrusted only to new artists, because they are art forms.
(McLuhan, 1954)
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"Sehnsucht" is a German word that is difficult to translate into a single expression in French or English, as it encompasses a complex and deeply emotional concept.
It refers to a feeling of longing or intense desire, often mixed with melancholy, that emerges from the perception of a lack, an unfulfilled desire or a sense of longing for something that is out of reach. It is a feeling of deep longing or yearning for something unreal, distant or inaccessible, whether it be a place, a person, a past moment or even an ideal state of being. It can evoke a bittersweet nostalgia, an unquenchable thirst for something beyond our present reality, but it can also be a source of inspiration and creative impetus. It's a word that captures the idea of the search for an elusive ideal, imbued with an emotional depth and poetry that is untranslatable in many other languages.
And it was around this word that I built a series of silver photographs with Florian Poupin and André Le Gall. These were exhibited from September 2022 to February 2023 at Le Grincheux bar in Strasbourg.
It refers to a feeling of longing or intense desire, often mixed with melancholy, that emerges from the perception of a lack, an unfulfilled desire or a sense of longing for something that is out of reach. It is a feeling of deep longing or yearning for something unreal, distant or inaccessible, whether it be a place, a person, a past moment or even an ideal state of being. It can evoke a bittersweet nostalgia, an unquenchable thirst for something beyond our present reality, but it can also be a source of inspiration and creative impetus. It's a word that captures the idea of the search for an elusive ideal, imbued with an emotional depth and poetry that is untranslatable in many other languages.
And it was around this word that I built a series of silver photographs with Florian Poupin and André Le Gall. These were exhibited from September 2022 to February 2023 at Le Grincheux bar in Strasbourg.
