Oasis
Lise Gaudaire
Dalpine
French and Spanish
Texts by Lise Gaudaire and Émilie Flory
Softcover with slipcase and postcard
Signed
96 pages
432 x 356 mm
2022
ISBN 9788409442904
Lise Gaudaire carries out an anthropological, documentary, artistic -and also probably intimate and introspective- search or investigation through the Axarquia valley (from the Arabic Ash Sharqiyah, الشرقية; “eastern”), in Andalusia, between the Costa del Sol and the Costa Tropical.
In Oasis, Lise Gaudaire reveals her own experiences and projections to raise the notions of disorientation, exoticism or mental and fantastic representation of the landscape. If the word today evokes a fertile island due to the presence of water in the middle of a vast desert, it is often forgotten that an oasis is artificial, entirely created by man, whose permanent attention is necessary to ensure the proper maintenance of the irrigation system: in short, an artificial paradise. The oasis is not just a shady palm grove: behind the cliché, it raises the terribly contemporary questions of the globalized economy and its ecological impact, sustainable agriculture and water consumption.
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About the Artist
Lise Gaudaire graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art de Lorient in 2007. After series of portraits devoted to her farmer father, her childhood in foster care, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood, since 2013 she has focused on the relationship between people and the landscape, their territory, how they perceive and understand it, and in particular, those who work it. Equipped with her large-format camera and microphone, and often accompanied by people who live in and shape rural areas—farmers, forest rangers, hedgerow technicians—she roams the countryside. She follows them, records them, talks with them, and photographs them and their landscapes. Beyond their emotional impact, Lise Gaudaire’s photographic series thus resemble both an anthropological approach and an archaeology of the landscape. Besides photography, she records, films, gathers, writes… and questions the ability of photography to express what surrounds it, to observe and understand it.
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About the Publisher
Founded in 2010 in Madrid, Dalpine is a publishing house that encourages collaboration between photographers, artists and designers to produce limited edition books. Dalpine also supports the dissemination of photographic and artistic works through exhibitions in collaboration with museums and institutions.
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