Après l'incendie

Une approche en creux des paysages

Abstract

Contrary to a definition of the landscape that makes it a spectacle perceived from a distance, possibly from a height, the contemporary works by photographer Maxime Riché (2024) and members of the LesAssociés collective (2025), devoted to the aftermath of the fire in Paradise, California, and in the Landes de Gascogne massif in France, tend to think of it, in isolation, as an environment whose inhabitants feed on in order to exist. Using a variety of plastic and dialogical devices, they envisage it as a common good that calls for democratic debate.