Basse saison

Basse saison is a collection of photographs taken by Marine Peixoto mainly during the winter of 2020, while staying in her native La Grande Motte.

In this work, the artist takes up classic photographic issues and places the question of light at the heart of her work. The Celle light of winter in the South is “more flattering” and more enveloping than the blazing sun of summer.

The new city, with its futuristic architecture and signage that conjure up an otherworldly experience, becomes once again the setting for ordinary atmospheric phenomena (mist, twilight). The game does not escape certain stereotypes, with deliberately “touristy” framing interfering with the heritage of objective photography and conceptual art, as if the aim were to rediscover a first taste of the country and its memory in images.