Birds - Graciela Iturbide (French version)

A figure of Latin American photography, Graciela Iturbide creates images which oscillate between documentary approach and lyricism: "I try to find photographs with movement but which, at the same time, have to do with something familiar thing." Off-center framing, graphic effects and powerful shadows create a poetic universe where the feeling of strangeness mixes with that of a raw reality. The powerful balance of his compositions gives us a view of saturated skies of birds, funny and unexpected situations where chickens are waiting wisely on market stalls, where pigeons argue with monkeys, Elsewhere there are moving clouds that look like real organisms. living birds with supple and fluid movements. For Iturbide, living birds represent freedom. But death is never far away and a certain spirit surrealist either. Dead birds lined up on a piece of sidewalk, birds carnivores waiting for their prey in the middle of the desert, crows flying over dry trees, inert tits perched on a woman's eyes: the Iturbide's photographs are often enigmatic paintings. The organic dimension, linked to blood, flesh, mud, sweat or still on the ground, also permeates most of her images. The photographer maintains a special relationship with reality by capturing unique moments. Birds and men coexist, rubbing against each other. From India in Mexico, from seafronts to urban terraces, seagulls, eagles, pigeons, Herons and crows invade human space or slip into it in a unexpected and solitary. Graciela Iturbide's birds arouse both attraction and repulsion: their fragility but sometimes also their power threatening, challenge and seduce.