Avian Tongues and Animal Trails

Edith Marie Pasquier engages with notions of presence, perception and encounter in relation to contemporary philosophy and photography. By working with the material and performative tools of photography – encounter with subject, focus plane and printing processes - her work takes us to experiments in writing, sound, film, object, performance and the still image.  

Turning to the animal and bird as a figure to explore philosophical, cognitive and literary ideas of the image, she draws on writings that state it is the animal and bird that deepens our reflection to what is felt but unseen, as it is they who return our gaze, and are part of an infinite variety of perceptual worlds, linked together as if in a musical score.

Pasquier argues that the poetic image holds the potential to be the political image - the variants of the poetic are dissected through a series of experiments, dialogues, studies, conundrums, descriptions, readings and gestures.

Currently, Pasquier is working towards a large body of work named Enargeia.

“ Pasquier examines states of grief and open for a broader perception of death as a phenomenon. Enargeia allows clairvoyance to coexist alongside the obscure, and from a curatorial point of view it is intriguing how Pasquier in her practice combines artistic and documentary methods, creating a vast pallet of expressions, interconnecting loss and presence, living and dead.” Alexandra A. Ellis, Curator, Sune Jonsson Centre for Documentary Photography, Västerbotten Museum

Represented by Tristan Hoare Gallery www.tristanhoaregallery.co.uk

Contact at:  info@edithmariepasquier.com