promenades clandestines (clandestine walks)
Series of 28 photographs, classic prints 30 x 40 cm, and on tarpaulins: 100x150 cm,
Residency at the French cultural centre of Casablanca, 2004-2005
Due to its dazzling modernity, it can be said that Casablanca is a town with no past. In this universe that is unceasingly renewed, Anne Laure Boyer has spent a lot of time exploring the shadow zones of a forgotten urban memory, so that she could learn about the past of a town that she arrived in by accident. On following this voyage of discovery, she created a subjective inventory of abandoned sites and wastelands in the form of photographs accompanied by narratives in the first person. Lying between documentary observation and poetry, this collection represents a way of seeing our connections with a disappearing past. How to observe the dying? What does this bring to us? What happens to these memories? What is the place of the photographer, and by extension, the individual, faced with time passing ?
