Author(s): Johanna Calle
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Parting from old photographs, collected with the care given by an ethnographer, Johanna Calle makes what she calls photographic drawings . To the tiny, fast gesture that triggered the shot, she adds her own: little by little she erases the elements present in the original image in order to gently raise the signs of an underground story: a landscape allows a musical score to arise, a face gives place to a polyhedron, a series of aerial photographs show how the silhouette of the trees of the primary forest ascends.