ADRIEN BASSE-CATHALINAT
CONFLUENCE
Born in Pau in 1989, he graduated from the photographic school Studio M of Montpellier in 2013 . For several years, he has developed a personal photographic approach on environmental themes and especially on the Pyrenees. Sensitive to the physical aspects of the photographic medium, he multiplies the means of expression by combining exhibitions, creation and mediation residencies, releasing of photographs and texts, and sound works. Adrien Basse Cathalinat currently lives between Toulouse and the Béarn region.
THEME : Geography
Confluences
Exhibition at the Chapelle des Cordeliers, from October 15 to November 27, 2022
Located in a flood plain south of Toulouse, the wetland at the confluence of the Garonne and Ariège rivers is a fragile environment subject to the natural phenomenon of flooding. Although necessary for the proper functioning of the ecosystems present, multiple factors linked to human activity lead to an increase in material and human damage with increasingly violent phenomena.
In the continuity of his previous works, Adrien Basse-Cathalinat proposes with his project Confluence a poetic vision of these fragile spaces and questions the relationship between Man and Nature. The position of domination and the search for mastery of natural phenomena lead to upheavals that scientific understanding has recently begun to measure. Through plastic research and the association of graphic data with his silver photographs, he marks the transition from a fundamental study to a real confrontation with current ecological issues. Art as well as science weave links between Man and his environment, and this new body of work bears witness to a fragile balance that must be maintained.