Nolwenn Brod has followed in the footsteps of Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969). From Poland to Argentina via Paris and the south of France, in Vence, she has traced his path, guided by the writer’s beloved Time of Immaturity.
Set in the political and social context of their time and in the long span of history and memory, Nolwenn Brod’s photographs depict a present moment of immaturity in action. Memory and pain surface and leave complex marks on the skin of the people photographed.
Nolwenn Brod’s images offer an amalgam of expressed sensitivity, multiple expressions of desire and sensuality materialised in a shared present. As much as a feeling of being stripped bare. Religious ecstasy mingles here with powerful sensuality. Violence rubs shoulders with gentleness.
It is a delicate art. You have to let it come to you in order to create it. Tact, a way of seeing without intrusion. The gaze becomes benevolent but direct when it comes very close and reveals its subject.
