L’agriculture comme écriture
Nina Ferrer-Gleize
Over four years, Nina Ferrer-Gleize took a close interest in the Mirabel farm, which has been in her family since 1920 and which her uncle took over in 1993. During this time she researched the daily life of this farm of 22 hectares located in Ardèche, as well as the representation in photography, painting and literature of peasant life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Over several seasons she went out on the property to document agricultural life and the work of her uncle.
He then became a partner in this artistic project; she followed him in his daily life, photographed him, and equipped him with a GPS to record his daily movements, so that his presence was inscribed on the land. The path that he followed day by day thus was drawn following a metaphor different from that of photography, one more like hieroglyphics. Her work thus unfolds rhizomatically amidst the heterogeneous objects – familiar, theoretical and real – that she brings together and sets in dialogue. The dialogue that she creates, like the dialogue between her and her uncle, re-enacts the mechanisms of family inheritance and evokes tradition that spans centuries.
Year of production: 2016-2023
In collaboration with: GwinZegal
