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during the festival des IDENTI’TERRES in
La Maison des Arts, Bages 26 september - 2november
Galerie L’Etang D’Art, Bages 04 october - 14 november
L.A.C. Hameau du Lac Sigean Narbonne 04 - 19 october

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Bages is the village of Corinne Mercadier’s grandfather. The parc naturel de la
Narbonnaise invited her this year for there festival les Identi’terres.

by Kathleen Burlumi

Corinne does not use the texture of paint nor the volumes of materials.
She uses neither the depths of the wood engraver, nor the expressivity of those
artists who work through the tactile senses. Nevertheless her photographs contain
much of what is considered to be their domain.
The feeling and the atmosphere in her work owes something to many periods of
painting and sculpture, photography and film making, even installation, and collage.
Photography is a difficult medium, it relies heavily on next to nothing, the effect of
light and shadow on a chemically treated flat surface. This puts enormous limitations
on the artist as everything must pass through a blind mechanical process interacting
with the intangible nature of light.
Corinne creates her photographs without them becoming “artful” or technical
complicated; Simple mechanical limitations are only the servants of her eye and her
mind. Her photographs contradict the idea of the ‘instant’ images, the suspension of
a captured moment is hung in time, they are contemplative visions with a quality of
agelessness, in common with the best art.