Every Evening, at Sunset
An architect by training, I truly began my journey as an artist by joining the post-graduate research program La Seine at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2007. Since then, my work has focused on the aesthetic experience of landscapes, particularly exploring the philosophical questions of beauty and the sublime.
Quite naturally, this led me to a specific interest in sunsets—their omnipresence in the history of art contrasted with their complete absence in critical thought. This dual observation became the starting point for a creative doctoral thesis that I am pursuing within the Radian program.
My residency in Ouessant marked the beginning of a true commitment to writing. Every evening, at sunset, like a lighthouse keeper taking their watch, I would sit down at my desk to reflect on our burning world during the long hours of twilight’s fading gradient…
“The Peace of the Evening (Edmée),
a series of six photographs of rocks at sunset.
“At first, it is but a fleeting moment, a very brief passage between day and night, the evening twilight, which is mirrored by the morning twilight. […] The scene is set and undone. An armistice has been declared, a respite granted, but peace is only temporary, nothing will last..”
Baldine Saint-Girons, L’acte esthétique, Paris, Klincksieck, coll. « 50 questions », 2008, page 54.
