inner journey

The meeting with the images of Anna Lehespalu took place via Instagram. Like many photographers of her generation, she adopted this network to disseminate her work. The artist thus takes us on his adventure, which we guess plays out in the Nordic countries, but without knowing which territory(ies) it is exactly. The diversity of the landscapes and the richness of nature impose themselves over the course of his publications; when it is not atmospheric phenomena that occupy the stage and enliven the space. Few details make it possible to locate oneself from a geographical point of view, so much so that the landscape is sometimes revealed through the pane of a window on which the rain still disturbs or renders the perception of reality more opaque. As you will have understood, Anna Lehespalu's photography is in no way based on a documentary intention, even if according to the words that were exchanged with her, it turns out that her vision was built in Iceland. This region appeals to her when she has to choose between staying in Estonia or leaving (“Stay home, go out”). As she points out herself, her practice is not based on a reasoned, even conceptual project; everything is done by instinct, the making of the image responds to an intuition. His experience of photography, which recently continued in Greenland, is first associated with an inner exploration. The journey through the landscape, the encounter with nature, the contemplation of everything that occurs in the atmosphere obey a personal quest, a psychological necessity: ; I bear witness to my own feelings in the face of what surrounds me, very close to me as in the middle of the landscape. I'm interested in how our mindset and feelings affect what we see around us and how we perceive things. As for the video, it comes here to complete the experience of photography: this time, it is no longer the operator who moves, but the elements of nature, water in particular, whose movement Anna Lehespalu films and accompanies it with a sound score.

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Anna Lehespalu's exhibition unfolds around the carthouse and on the walls of the building. The photographs are spread over four panels; each of them constitutes a sequence of four images associating a particular visual motif with a plastic treatment that combines color, light, matter, reflection and transparency. The photographs were taken mainly in Iceland over the past few years, but Greenland also features in this set, as does the silhouette of the artist. A montage of several video sequences based on the theme of water and punctuated by the music of composer Luca Alberto (“Wait For Me”) is projected on one of the walls of the carthouse next to the photographs.

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