Rising Waters

Sennecey le grand / Tournus | 2022

Solo exhibition by Belgian artist Fabienne Cresens

How would we react to the powerful destruction wrought by the raging elements?

Her portraits are touching, cheerful, serious, and simply overwhelming. Without being moralistic, the artist offers us a human interpretation of a world that is falling apart to be transformed into a new world – or not.
Fabienne Cresens has been working on this series since 2009 and has spent ten years photographing more than a hundred portraits, always with the same aesthetic: bare shoulders, frank faces where everything is visible. 

A self-taught Belgian photographer born in Africa, she has been expanding the scope of her art since the age of seventeen, from film to digital today. Her works are deeply centred on people and the poetry that surrounds them. A lyricism that challenges us, as in the series on climate change presented here, entitled LA MONTÉE DES EAUX (The Rising Waters). 

The associations Chez Ta Soeur in Tournus and Nature Humaine in Sennecey le Grand are jointly organising a travelling exhibition of the photographer's La Montée des Eaux series.
The first part takes place in Sennecey le Grand. A series of 16 portraits are on display in the Place des Tilleuls in the centre of the village during the summer months (June to September).
The second part is located in the prestigious refectory of the monks of Saint Philibert Abbey in Tournus. 

A series of 41 portraits is on display for three weeks in August, accompanied by a photo booth and workshops for making unusual bathing caps.