The shared horizon of inland seas.
Photography. Curated by Catherine Bedard. Straddling the border between Canada and the United States, making it disappear into its colossal fluid mass, the Great Lakes basin brings together millions of residents around its shores, including Indigenous peoples from many First Nations and tribes. An extraordinary resource of surface drinking water (among the largest in the world); a place of movement and exchange, commerce, work, leisure, travel, and meditation, but also of exploitation, danger, and vulnerability; this immense basin has been observed from the diversity of its shores by Robert Burley, one of the most important Canadian photographers of our time. Here, the artist has created a body of work that is both unprecedented and exceptional, in which the majestic beauty of this elusive whole, at times soothing and at times unsettling, becomes a reflection on the power of the contemporary image. Stripped of any anecdotal distraction, returning the Great Lakes to their primal grandeur, Robert Burley’s photographs call to the viewer like mesmerizing sirens. In partnership with Biinaagami, Swim Drink Fish, and Canadian Geographic.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Robert Burley