Le bruit que nous faisons assis là, sans que personne ne bouge
Aude Mayer
Aude Mayer explores in a singular way the modes of perception and the manner in which the situated body, both fragile and attentive, is shaped by its limits and enters into relationship with the world.Through a deeply sensitive approach, Aude Mayer develops a practice that gives central importance to auditory, tactile and bodily perceptions. Her work gives form to what usually escapes the eye: silence, vibration, micro-sensations, the invisible rhythms of the body. Photography thus becomes a space of visual listening, a territory where the senses shift, recompose and reinvent themselves, opening up another way of perceiving and experiencing reality.
By revealing how vulnerability, here linked to hearing impairment, can become a perceptual strength, her work offers an experience in which the gaze is no longer dominant but shared, where sensoriality expands toward often marginalised dimensions. This position resonates with the concerns of the festival, which understands care as attention paid to bodies, diminished perceptions and alternative forms of being present in the world.
Aude Mayer’s work invites the public to rethink the relationship between image and perception, between fragility and creation, opening up a sensory space where the visible dialogues with the invisible, or with its invisible part.
Year of production: 2022-2024
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