Trova

Trova – “Gilles Roudière belongs to the family of intuitive, sensitive photography. He doesn’t tell the world as it is, but as he feels it. So in the images of Cuba that he delivers, there is no intention to testify or to document. Nothing is descriptive. No clues, no geographical or social studies. This is not his intention.

With Trova, Gilles Roudière takes a photographic stroll through Cuba in the manner of the Spanish-American trovadores who travel from town to town to perform their songs. He lets himself be carried along by his journey, delivering powerful black-and-white images with explosive grain. Without ever stopping at the surface of things, free of clichés and all exotic temptations, his photographs play between fiction and reality, composing a narrative that seems to have come straight out of a film. Photographs that often border on the surreal, carried by a fascinated and fascinating gaze”. — Caroline Bénichou