Book "Red Moon and Other Pets" - Dolorès Marat
Afterword: “Captivities”, by Vincent Pélissier
It's important to remember that Dolores Marat has long photographed many animals—without ever risking the label of wildlife photographer—and that they are always marked by solitude. While her album does contain some group images, a flock of birds, a troop of horsemen, they are so distant, so scattered across the expanse of a desert or a sky, that they, in turn, are collectively very lonely. And so, these are never photographs of monkeys, giraffes, or owls, but rather of a singular subject, chosen in its solitude, and even, to indulge in a bit of anthropomorphism, in its wretched dereliction. Her focus is not on animals in their so-called wild state, but on those that the world has integrated into its paltry leisure machinery, those that one can sense are sad at the bottom of a cage, in a zoo: relics, recluses, captives abandoned to the curiosity of hurried visitors, to whom she grants a form of dignity without obscuring, but merely suggesting, their condition to our thoughts. These subjects of the Jardin des Plantes were precursors, announcing to humankind where they were headed, having lost both their native and free place within Creation and their roles, useful to our customs, labors, positions, omens, emissaries. Moreover, we have now reached the point of providing them with digitized viewings so they can converse from one cage to another and imagine what they look like dying of boredom, yet intensely excited by the frenzy of the internet.
Vincent Pélissier
This book was published with the support of the MAP, with whom Dolorès Marat began a process of donating her photographic work in 2019.
- Dolorès Marat
- Publication date: December 2021
- ISBN : 9791091902748
- Size : 26 x 28,5
- 96 pages
Dolorès Marat
Dolorès Marat was born in Paris and now lives in Avignon. An independent photographer, she continues her artistic exploration, disregarding trends and genres. For a long time, her work exclusively used the Fresson printing process. Exhibited worldwide, Dolorès Marat has published numerous books, including: New York USA (Marval, 2002), Illusion (with Marie Darrieussecq, Filigranes, 2003), and Paris, Correspondences (with Arlette Farge, La Pionnière, 2015).