CLOÉ HARENT
LES HOMMES OISEAUX
Born in Castelnaudary in 1998, Cloé Harent is a photographer. In 2019 she graduated from the EPTA (Photographic and Game Design School) in Toulouse, with the Special Jury Prize. Cloé Harent experiments a new approach of documentary photography associating different kinds of plastic forms. She seeks to give rise the conditions for a dialogue between blurred images, archival images, and topographical approach to the landscape. In order to get a better understanding of the present, she summons up the sensitive traces of the past. The notions of memory and passing time are also at the heart of her photographic research.
Cloé Harent writes a story, halfway between reality and fiction, in which a family of Birdmen, with their apparent sensitivity, slowly fades from our memories. In 2019, they find themselves in front of buildings, the carcass of 75 years of air force life. How to make empty places full of stories talk? It is difficult to find evidence. Between quest and investigation, Cloé Harent goes in search of the slightest clues to reconstruct a fictional story, interweaving several layers of memories, images of the past and evidence of the present. Everything is available, the Mess (reception area), the boiler room, B1 (offices) and the former CIET CG7. She also has in her possession the sole identity of “military” to embody the thousands of people who populated these places.