The project of this series is to create a narrative that immortalizes more than three and a half centuries of interaction between stone and its environment, and which invites us to reflect on the meaning of these works of art throughout history.<br><br>
While these outdoor statues of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte are exposed to the exterior elements, seasons and other ravages of time, as well as subject to human impact, seeing them through the lens of the camera transforms them as witnesses of flesh rather than stone. The marks of time, the subtle alterations of the materials give me many reasons to explore the silent dialogue that they maintain between them, from then on considered as living elements, and giving free rein to the imagination:<br><br>
„During my first meeting, when I calmly entered these sumptuous gardens of Le Nôtre, surrounded by the magical light of dusk, I sensed the fragments of a dialogue coming from the direction of Apollo and Rhea, or was it Nessos speaking to Dejanire…or just the wind? » What do these statues convey to us? In this space between life and death, a milestone of continuity between the two, the mute statues over the centuries now become a subject of transition; they symbolize the boundaries of time on the path to eternity.
Jörg Bräuer