Benjamin Deroche / La lumière du loup

The starting point of this creation is Benjamin Deroche's interest in the myth of the "Green Wolf" born on the land of Jumièges. By working on the geographical spaces where the legend was built and by continuing his plastic research on the landscape, the photographer creates an open photographic fiction around the story of the wolf, the donkey, and Saint Austreberthe, "the brilliant one of the East".

Taking into account that the figure of the wolf holds a primordial place in the pre-Christian myths, the photographer weaves a link between the reported legend and the mystical atmospheres of the visited places. Over the course of the seasons, he works on morning lights and mounts plastic installations simulating luminous apparitions in the forest and at the source of the Ste Austreberthe river.

Benjamin Deroche does not document the legend, he disturbs it to give us access to a magical instance by means of the photographic medium and the installations.

Published by Filigranes
French

17 x 24 cm
96 pages
2020