Michel Verna

Exhibition Torchis mon Amour

Earth
                                                                                                           
 "I had long wanted to work on matter, body, earth. The meeting with Martine and Vincent was the occasion to undertake this photographic journey.
The word "Man" comes from the Indo-European root "dghem", meaning earth in the "ground" sense. "Man" also has as Latin root "homo", in the general sense of the word, to distinguish from "vir", the man in the sense of male. "Homo" is also related to humus, the soil. The Greek "khamai" means "on land". A real puzzle. The Romans called man, "the earthly", as opposed to the gods. Man says ADAM in Hebrew, Adama being the earth and in blood. At the four corners of the earth, Man and the Earth are one.
Accompanying Vincent and Martine, living the cob with them, through them to return to the Man born and walking on earth, was an endless enjoyment, a sensual osmosis.
I never ceased to breathe them with a small focal point, to feel them, to feel them.
I had only one desire, to be as close as possible to their bodies, to perceive their cracks, to catch their light, to scrub their bristly hairs. Being one with them, man and woman cob, man and woman land. Being in the poetic carnal of their rebirth.
We came to the idea of ​​prolonging this experience in the Northern Finistère to live alchemy with granite, mimicry with the rock from Verlen to Porspoder.
What an ode to life, what a hymn to nature, to our nature as a Man!
This moment of life gave me even more desire to take care of us, our Man of Earth, our Man of Torchis.

                                                                                                      Michel Verna / Noa Mai