Bilateral

Bilateral – For several years now, Samuel Gratacap has been visiting territories that bear the traces of a precarious, temporary occupation, a passage and a contemporary history: that of the paths of exile around the Mediterranean.

Bilateral echoes the presence – real or suggested – of exiles on the French-Italian border, and the question of their passage through this transalpine sector.

It is also a work on the landscape, on both sides of the border, the one that separates and unites us in turn. Samuel Gratacap has tried to put his eye on it, and to listen to the people he met, in an effort to critique media images and the traditional representations they offer; text by Michel Agier, b/w and color photos.