Laurent Mulot

+ – 49° 29’

The videograms Lovers Journey and Porthole Eyes were created by Laurent Mulot during his residency at Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie en Gaspésie. Mulot made these artworks on a cargo boat travelling from Gaspesie to Côte-Nord, at latitude + – 49° 29’. They are part of a larger project started in 2001 called Middle of Nowhere, that takes place on 6 continents.

Videogram 1 

Lovers Journey

Laurent Mulot, Middle of Nowhere

‘’ In the summer of 1944, André Breton and Elisa Claro, at the time young lovers, took a trip to the Gaspé and made a stop at Percé. Seventy-one years later, on a foggy day, the rock, become a ghost, is invisible, but poetry, the queen of images, lets us see and hear the poet’s song…’’

Source : LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE EN GASPÉSIE

Videogram 2

Porthole Eye                                                      

Laurent Mulot, Middle of Nowhere

‘’ The porthole, the ideal eye for contemplating the sea, its infiniteness, its coast and its ports, offers a view that is far-reaching and simultaneously restricted, its glass window revealing immensity while reflecting the person looking through. The landscapes parade here around 49° and 52° north, from one shore to the other; the in-between is lost in the foam: it floats precisely…in the middle of Nowhere. ‘’

Source : LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE EN GASPÉSIE

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