Holding Hills
Séries photographique
Japon . 2018—aujourd’hui

“Poetry is an instantaneous metaphysics. A poetic image surprises us, strikes us with its intensity. It transports us immediately into a reality that transcends our daily experience.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (1957)

Holding Hills is a photographic series focusing on Japanese concrete hills. Partially or entirely covered, their grey mesh surfaces attempt to stabilize an unstable soil. At times engulfed by vegetation, they blend into the landscape until they become almost invisible.

What are we trying to hold back? What do we seek to control? What are we afraid to let slip away? How far are we willing to go to soothe our fears?

These hills, half-organic half-petrified, embody a desire to contain, to suspend, to freeze what threatens to give way, while revealing an underlying fear of collapse. In a world of constant transformation, they question our need to fix what escapes us, to dominate the unpredictable, to master the inevitable.