Paradise
Paradise
At a time when climate change is accelerating, when global warming
planet begins to change our way of life, at a time when cataclysms
weather conditions are increasing and where populations
of our planet begin to migrate in order to survive, Maxime Riché's work reports of a recurring disaster: the Mega forest fires.
Maxime's project Riché, named Paradise after one of the cities ravaged by mega fires in Butte County, Sierra Nevada,
California, a region that by two times has experienced very large-scale fires, has been carried out on several years, with residents seeking to rebuild their “lost paradise” in an environment
became particularly hostile. "To transcribe sensitively their emotions and allow the
spectator to see Through the eyes of Camp Fire survivors, I use infrared film that The fiery tones punctuate the tenuous normality of a life that they are trying to reconstruct. These images,
flashbacks of the hell lived, recall the memory of the flames engraved on their retinas, like a daily hallucination as they rebuild with fear of the next megafire in the belly, surrounded by smoke from successive fires.
Navigating the boundaries between documentary and fiction, like a back and forth between awakening and a bad dream from which one cannot escape, the series Paradise is a parable about our ability to adapt
" Maxime Riché, extract.
PARADISE has been exhibited at:
- Routes of the Traveling photographers - April 1 to 30, 2023 - Bordeaux
- Festival The Gacilly photo, special edition 20 years - La Gacilly, June 1 - October 1, 2023 - 45 large format photographs (1.50m to 3m)
- Photographic walks of Blois - Blois, July-August 2023 - 26 photographs of the project
- Anticipation festival at the Climate Academy - Paris, 09/17/23
- Quay of Knowledge - “Fire, Megafires” exhibition at the Cité des Sciences in Paris - Toulouse, October 2023 - VR + large photo exhibition in the center of place.
- National Library of France - Paris, October 2023-February 2024
- Photo Saint-Germain and CNAP (National Center for Plastic Arts) Paris, November 2023.
of our planet begin to migrate in order to survive, Maxime Riché's work reports of a recurring disaster: the Mega forest fires.
Maxime's project Riché, named Paradise after one of the cities ravaged by mega fires in Butte County, Sierra Nevada,
California, a region that by two times has experienced very large-scale fires, has been carried out on several years, with residents seeking to rebuild their “lost paradise” in an environment
became particularly hostile. "To transcribe sensitively their emotions and allow the
spectator to see Through the eyes of Camp Fire survivors, I use infrared film that The fiery tones punctuate the tenuous normality of a life that they are trying to reconstruct. These images,
flashbacks of the hell lived, recall the memory of the flames engraved on their retinas, like a daily hallucination as they rebuild with fear of the next megafire in the belly, surrounded by smoke from successive fires.
Navigating the boundaries between documentary and fiction, like a back and forth between awakening and a bad dream from which one cannot escape, the series Paradise is a parable about our ability to adapt
" Maxime Riché, extract.
PARADISE has been exhibited at:
- Routes of the Traveling photographers - April 1 to 30, 2023 - Bordeaux
- Festival The Gacilly photo, special edition 20 years - La Gacilly, June 1 - October 1, 2023 - 45 large format photographs (1.50m to 3m)
- Photographic walks of Blois - Blois, July-August 2023 - 26 photographs of the project
- Anticipation festival at the Climate Academy - Paris, 09/17/23
- Quay of Knowledge - “Fire, Megafires” exhibition at the Cité des Sciences in Paris - Toulouse, October 2023 - VR + large photo exhibition in the center of place.
- National Library of France - Paris, October 2023-February 2024
- Photo Saint-Germain and CNAP (National Center for Plastic Arts) Paris, November 2023.
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