InCadaqués Residency 2022

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The Metamorphoses

Graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1998, Letizia Le Fur was initially trained in painting. Encouraged by the artist and teacher Valérie Belin, she quickly turned her aesthetic search towards photography. Her style, through a very personal use of colours and a particular attention to composition, is always situated between reality and fiction. Fascinated by myths, she explores the dual theme of nature and the human figure by creating atmospheric scenes and dreamlike visions.

"The Metamorphoses" is the third part of a corpus entitled "Mythologies" initiated in 2019, a free interpretation of past myths through the prism of my sensibility. The first two chapters, "The Origin" and "The Golden Age", currently exhibited at the Laure Roynette Gallery (Paris), show through the double motif of the human figure and the landscape, a vision of sovereign nature, sometimes hostile, sometimes welcoming and fertile, in which a man, or a demigod, evolves, fragile and powerful. This third chapter, inspired by Ovid's long poem, evokes the transformations, the mutations of men and gods, to seduce, conquer or flee. It is about camouflage and adaptation. And as always, keeping as a guiding thread the search for beauty and harmony while giving this work a contemporary resonance. 

Cadaqués was an ideal playground to start this new series and to continue this initiatory journey, as much by the imprint of Dalí and the surrealist movement in the history of the city, as well as by its topography.  What I wanted to show above all is the metamorphosis in progress. When there is still a little bit of Syrinx left before she is transformed into a reed, or to guess under the features of a heifer the beautiful Io... A long observation of nature was necessary, I wanted to use light effects, reflections in the water, shadows cast, superimpositions, to make several protagonists appear, sometimes going as far as a certain form of abstraction in the rendering of these images.