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Echoes of Light in Flowing
Silence
February 2025
Video projection on suspended
plastic, Galerie Oblique
In Echoes of Light in
Flowing Silence, I film fragments of the Grand Bisse
de Vex, sometimes no more than thirty centimetres wide. One has to come
closer, bend down and observe to discover, on the surface of the water,
a microcosm in constant motion: the forest, sky, light and shadows
appear, dissolve and recompose with the flow of the current.
These images emerge from daily
observation. Filmed at different places and at different moments, these
fragments gradually come together to form the video. Through projection
and a shift in scale, this microcosm becomes a macrocosm: within just a
few centimetres of water, an entire universe is revealed.
Created from fragments gathered over
several years, the film now bears witness to a landscape that is itself
undergoing transformation. In recent years, I have observed a decrease
in the flow of the bisse. In 2025, extensive damage interrupted the flow
of water for much of the summer. This historic irrigation channel,
created in 1453 to carry water from the Printse to the lands of Vex, now
reveals the fragility of what we once believed to be lasting and
abundant.
In an Alpine landscape where glaciers are
retreating and the presence of water is changing, these images take on a
new resonance. What began as an exploration of the ephemeral has also
become a sensitive record of what once was.
Water flows, light shifts, the forest transforms. Everything is
in motion. Echoes of Light in Flowing Silence
explores this impermanence and the fragile beauty of the moment: within
a tiny fragment of water, a world appears, exists for a few seconds, and
then becomes something else.
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