L’utopie du mouvement

  • Untitled #10, 2015, 140x180 cm

  • Untitled #1, 2015, 140x180 cm

  • Untitled #4, 2015, 140x180 cm (x2)

  • Untitled #7, 2015, 140x180 cm

  • Untitled #6, 2015, 140x180 cm

  • Untitled #5, 2015, 140x180 cm

This series of landscapes photographs taken over the course of four seasons around Château Lafite, at the invitation of Éric de Rothschild. From this body of work, Shoshan chose six black-and-white photographs of the forest in winter and some works of migrating birds in flight. This project, abstract in inspiration, can be seen as an extension of the artist’s meditations on the phenomena of migration: this time within nature, where Shoshan discerns a balance and subtle play between harmony and disharmony. While human population movements tend to be political or dramatic in nature, here the theme of migration reveals an unexpected poetry.

The series also opens up new perspectives on themes close to Shoshan. For the first time, the photographer’s work shows no trace of human activity, inaugurating a new sense of temporality — more ambiguous, unmarked by dates and timelines. Similarly, these works are about movement, not waiting. Indeed, nature knows no stasis, no stability— however, in compensation, everything goes at its own speed.