Honorable Mention
Trois Terres en cinétique
DESCRIPTION
"Mathilde de l’Ecotais has adjusted the focus of her camera. From the infinitely big to the infinitely small. A photo journey that impacts in a good or bad way our five senses. And urges us to look at and feel this nurturing Earth differently. From up there first, from this space yet so mysterious from which we extract our dreams sponsored by Nasa, the planet is no longer blue like an orange. But rather red stained like this sausage that outlines the Americas. As if the ecological invoice were already expensive. Plastic pieces in relief inviting themselves to the ocean are taunting the eye, causing this irresistible desire to strip these elements off and clean the deck. Regain some balance. Avoid this chaos to which this ''Belly to the Ground'' is leading us."Text by Eva Roque
AUTHOR
Mathilde de l’Ecotais is a french famous artist. Devoted to the expression of beauty, she creates objects and immersed places through photography.Recognized as a visual artist very exclusive – her work is currently on display at Expérience Pommery n°12 and Bercy Village – she just completed Caudalie’s Spa new swimming pool and is now working on a NewYork Hotel concept. She only accepts to do few pieces all around the world.
Committed as an artist, “entrepreneur”, she launches her own design agency in 2013 and patents a processthat could revolutionized the world of swimming pool. Her world view is topical : what appeared to be in the beginning a simple “culinary” visual representation became a surreal landscape transcending the beauty of substance. What interests her, is nature it-self. Her wishes, to protect it as she is attacked from all sides.
By detailing every ounce of complexity enclosed in every organic form, by diverting the concept of food, she emphasizes the strengths et weaknesses of earth it-self... and urges us to take care of it.
She expresses herself through the frame, through still or moving images. Mathilde de l’Ecotais defines food as the subject of an ever-changing design. Vegetal or animal, it feeds an infinite range of palette and signposts a territory of technicals and aesthetics experimentations echoing a true ecological awareness. As it is, her images takes an architectural dimension. They vibrates under the water of the Caudalie swimming pool, true technical and aesthetic prowess. In directing her movies and her abstracts photographies, she creates conceptual universes, each new world built on images and her mastering of the medium. The eye travels, ever-lasting witness of a prospective and emotional design.
Her creative force, the audacity of her vision pave the way to new universes, each and every one a
