For many years Martine Voyeux has been working on a photographic story that has taken her to the legendary cities of southern Europe. In her photographs she evokes what is unique about each place, bringing back the past in the faces of the present. She seeks the nature of the mystery by which life continues despite everything. Far from descriptive reportage, she tells a story involving emblematic figures reminiscent of tarot cards, using a range of colours redolent of purgatory. She walks a thin line between life and death, between truth and falsehood. Under the surface, an impression of what might lie beyond emerges. |