Un projet de Valérie Eglès, Florence Levasseur, Alice Schÿler Mallet
diep~haven/ festival transmanche — le portrait
Hall de la Médiathèque, Dieppe
Photographies inprimées sur papier, dimensions variables, videos.


Le labyrinthe
Nous dévoilons un versant demeuré confidentiel de la personnalité de Pascal Cribier, photographe compulsif et créateur d’objets dédiés à des espaces artistiques. Objets, photos et films révèlent une sensibilité de plasticien qu’il ne s’est que rarement autorisé à rendre publique, pour rester au service de ses projets paysagers. Toujours hantés par des préoccupations liées au paysage et à l’écologie, ces images, ces objets nous apparaissent comme des œuvres à part entières, autonomes.
Le projet consiste à présenter quelques-unes d’entre elles, dans une disposition formant comme un salon où le visiteur pourra prendre le temps de regarder les films, d’écouter la musique, de contempler les images et objets. Révélant la face cachée d’une pratique, tout autant qu’une dimension authentique de son activité, elles rendent compte selon nous du caractère, de la vision, de l’énergie créatrice de Pascal Cribier.

An attempt to reveal a  secret side of the personality of Pascal Cribier, famous landscaper, obsessionnal photographer, and creator of objects for artistic use. Objects, photographies and films reveal the sensitivity of a creator was rarely shown in public, staying busy with his projects of landscape gardening. Always haunted by preoccupations linked to landscape, and ecology, these images and objects appear to us as pieces in themselves, autonomous from the rest of his work.
The project focuses on showing some of his work, in a way tat will be like in a reading room, where the spectator allows himself to watch the films, listen to the music, contemplate images and objects. Revealing a hidden form of his practice as well as an authentical dimension of his activity, they are faithful, according to us, to the  character, the vision, and the energy of Pascal Cribier.

The Mirror
COOP Newhaven
Video, loop, 5 min

This proposition is a mirror in several layers :
It is a pool of glass created by famous landscaper Pascal Cribier who passed away last November, an almost still water, surrounding the existing fountain at Woolton House in Hampshire, the only garden he created in England. It is a view through the looking glass, where a dark creative energy haunts the tranquility.
A mirroring of his portrait across the water in Dieppe.
An evocation of hidden parts of his character, reflected through the videos and photographs left behind after he took his own life away.
It is an image that is slippery, elusive.
It is a living mirror, a space of reflection.