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Escales en Polynésie


2021

Escales en Polynésie, 2021

Éditions Au Vent des îles
235 x 295 mm
272 pages

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Escales en Polynésie
2021
Illustration
Illustration
Illustration
Illustration
Illustration

Avec Zoé Lamazou,
Escales en Polynésie accompanies
the eponymous exhibition
at the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands

From Island to Island, Titouan Lamazou draws a vibrant fresco, both realistic and dreamlike, of the country where he has chosen to settle after forty years of wandering: Polynesia. In this corner of the world that looks like paradise, he is looking for an impossible haven where human beings would remember their essential link to the Living. His precise line, capable of capturing a soul, and his quest for diversity reveal all the complexity of the ocean where he lingers today.
His daughter, Zoé, follows him on this journey. She brings out the words of those whom Titouan portrays.

These voices from the archipelagos bear witness to a very ancient relationship with the land, the sea and the sky, reinvented in the face of a colonisation with many faces. Father and daughter invite us on an odyssey downwind through five archipelagos and their myriad islands, scattered on the Pacific swell like so many stars in the sky of the navigators: Marquesas, Tuamotu, Gambier, Society Islands and Austral Islands. A shimmering mosaic of contrasting landscapes and characters with romantic destinies. An inspiring and salutary journey to the edge of a world in search of meaning.

Escales en Polynésie, 2021

Éditions Au Vent des îles
235 x 295 mm
272 pages

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