Sea Bathing
This series bears witness to a distant time when the sea was barely accessible and made us dream, a coastline that was still relatively virgin, a seaside described in light and reflections by the impressionists.
Sea bathing questions memory and the gap with reality. Our memories of this time are made up of images brought back by painters, therefore interpreted both in substance and in form.
Gerard Staron has therefore chosen a medium that, through its rendering, acts on perception like painting: The Polaroid, through its total absence of sharpness, through the diffusion of colors, provides the same impressions as painting.
The Polaroid is already an old device in our memory and is therefore associated with the past, and therefore helps to connect these images, however recent, to an imaginary of the past.
This is not an attempt to join the defunct current of pictorialists, who denied the particularity of the photographic medium and added to the process manual acts supposed to restore the status of a work to an industrial process. On the contrary, it is the particularity of the medium that gives meaning to the image.
The series comprises 84 images.
The images are printed in digigraphy in 40×50 format on Hahnmühle museum Etching matt fineArt paper.
