A photo exhibition between concrete and granite

No sophisticated staging for the exhibition in the Barbazan-Debat wedding hall, which ended on Sunday. A dozen photographs by two artists: the concrete urban photographs of Marion Moulinou from Toulouse and the granite nature photographs of Flo Théas Bays from Tarbes, who showed us around the exhibition. Fields of exploration that contrast and come together during the work period, the day after the end of the lockdown, which erased day after day all traces of human presence in the city and in nature. "I use a very rudimentary camera from the 1980s, which is locked to certain parameters, restricted in terms of speed," explains Flo Théas Bays. "It's reduced to being a simple shutter. A rudimentary side that I like. And I use expired film from stocks from the 1980s, from the Russian army and aerial mapping services. All of this together contributes to the data in the photos with grain, with a particular contrast." This is accentuated by the way I process these photos when printing." Dehumanized architecture and wild nature of the foothills of the Pic de la Clique in Germs-sur-l'Oussouet somewhere between Bagnères-de-Bigorre and Argelès-Gazost. Each in its own playground draws a striking post-apocalyptic atmosphere, as if these photos were the only traces of a mythical past.