Nanténé Traoré's return to the Breton coast, which he frequented as a child with his mother, brings back traumatic memories and marks the beginning of a period of deep depression and dissociation. Made from expired film stock dating from the 1990s, the images convey this state of disturbance in which reality seems to slip away. The chemical alterations of the film change the colours, blur the outlines and produce unstable, almost ghostly visions.
In this landscape inhabited by memories, walks become a way of shifting attention towards the world around him and what constitutes it: the shorelines, the birds, the stray dogs, or the familiar sleeping silhouettes. His gaze rests on the fragile beauty of beings and places destined to fade away.
Crossed by vaporous light, blue or orange, the images blur the boundaries between forms: bodies become landscapes, and landscapes become the reflection of inner states. The film extends this experience of dissolution: a fixed shot of a landscape is accompanied by the artist's inner voice, which guides us into the heart of this sensitive and memorial drift.
The exhibition brings together a new analogue photographic project, made in Brittany in summer 2025, as well as a film shot during a residency in Albania in summer 2026.