Gutierrez Sandrine

I was selected in Autumn 2015 with this serie, for the collective exhibition for young swiss photographers, in the Photoforum, Biel.

Presentation :

*Exile in the horizon *

Cold, fog, rocks. Hostile vast lands offering
themselves to exile. Leaving the known life, the warm and comfortable
habit, to run away and to perhaps reinvent oneself. Knowing that memories
will fade, that oblivion and distance will threaten to bring the colourful
or blackened picture of a life back to a pure original white.

One feels
born naked. Once again. Fragile. Sometimes the road will prove to be
hopeless, without an exit. Whether it is about people or an individual,
political or relational reasons, some lives are doomed to be erased and to
start over every day, at the price of a treacherous journey. These
landscapes illustrate the torn up state, the moment when this present life
disintegrates, giving way to a future seemingly unattainable.

Realized among plains and alpine or Nordic mountains with difficult weather
conditions, this work highlights in a poetic way the muted violence of
exile, separation and grief. These horizons drowned in white and emptiness,
sometimes misty but not devoid of texture, evoke the uncertainty and
difficulty of projecting oneself in the future then opaque and proceeded by
rough and craggy borders. The noise and the grain pierces through like
little needles caused by the sensation of coldness. Sometimes the vision is
disturbed to the point of creating a blur and the absence of colour
highlights firstly the contrast, the symbol of sharp cut, and secondly the
grey tones which, like fog, blind and encompass its surroundings. The white
sometimes becomes dazzling, rendering the skies alike vast and heavy
ceilings.