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Background information
"'Galerna'
is a long-running photography project in which Jon CAZENAVE questions
his identity and his territorial belonging. Beyond documenting a place,
this extensive photographic journey leads him to the discovery of his
deepest being. His early
pictures are marked by the political situation in his homeland, but soon
enough another urge arises: the need to discover the spirit of his
region and his origins. He slowly drifts away from the documentary
approach towards a more essential photographic language, devoting
himself to his surroundings: the mountains, the woodlands, the sea and
its fishermen, the Basque culture and its rituals; also, the wildlife
and, more recently, the caves that it merges with. Thus are born his
black, pure, direct images, carved out of matter. Jon CAZENAVE makes an
incision in the landscape, his own landscape. After
over a decade of passionate, uncompromising photography, he senses a
different direction and shakes off his insatiable thirst for black.
Colour offers a new answer to his search, putting an end to his long
journey through the emptiness of the universe and opening the door to
new forms of creation.
Content
As
simple as it is conclusive, this photo volume, 'Galerna' by Jon CAZENAVE,
manages, through editing, to evoke the physical and emotional experience
of a journey, first to the origins and then to the place from which the
photographer perceives freedom. This volume includes an essay by the
writer Kirmen Uribe that examines the linguistic foundations of the
Basque, as well as its ethnographic and anthropological resonances. The
text by Fannie Escoulen, curator, allows us to understand Jon Cazenave's
photographic search." (© Dalpine, 2021)
Additional information
The photo volume 'Galerna' by Jon CAZENAVE was published in two identical but different language editions: an English edition and a Spanish edition.