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TIERRA M<\/strong><\/em>\u00c1<\/strong><\/em>GICA
\nYannick Cormier, Candice Moise<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Third book of Light Motiv around carnivals in the world, Tierra M\u00e1gica<\/em><\/strong> tackles the rituals and masquerades of northwestern Spain.<\/p>\n

Every year, the sound of bells comes out of mist that surround villages and try to announce the end of winter, we also hear cries and distant music. As we approach, we begin to distinguish walking trees, fantastic birds and more disturbing figures.<\/p>\n

These processions seem to come from very far away, from the depths of time, from under the earth. The work of photographer Yannick Cormier<\/a> transcribes the amazement that grips us when faced with these frightening and attractive characters.<\/p>\n

Tierra M\u00e1gica<\/em><\/strong> is built on a rhythm of alternating black and white photographs (made with a medium format film) of misty landscapes and sudden appearances.<\/p>\n

These masquerades have survived centuries and wars with little change. They can now be seen as the resurgence of an animist world preceding the Christian expansion.<\/p>\n

One could almost say that those costumes embody the pagan land, in opposition to the divine sky: all the wild nuances are reinterpreted in the animal, vegetal, or chimerical ornaments.<\/p>\n

In the end, this is a parade of sensations that oscillate between dream and nightmare, with Yannick Cormier opening the ball.<\/p>\n

The black and white analog photographs go along with a beautiful text written by Candice Moise<\/strong>, a French scholar specialised in the study of masks. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab The masquerade affirms its right to be double: alive and dead at the same time. In the procession, there are masks, frozen faces, faces of death carried on living, jumping and acting bodies, and also animal remains, brought back to life on animated young people... Ambiguity appears in each silhouette, associating refined civility and dirty savagery, raw and delicate, white and black, all together, inseparable. Life and death: lively-death. \u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Text excerpt by Candice Moise<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To know more, have a look at Yannick Cormier's interview by publisher Eric Le Brun about his works and the book:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n