The publication Resolute Bay, the daytime journey in the night is the testimony of a project imagined by Louis Couturier and Jacky Georges Lafargue. It presents the entire project that was born in 2004 in the small hamlet in the Canadian High Arctic from which it took its name : Resolute Bay. A text by Paul Ardenne analyses the duo's approach. Sabine Cazenave, director of the Musée de Picardie, explains how one of their monumental installations fits in with works dating from the 19th century. The many photographs reveal the many facets of this project, which has been shown to the public in places as far apart as Nunavut, France, Quebec and Saskatchewan.
Resolute Bay, the daytime journey in the night
Jacky Georges Lafargue & Louis Couturier
Jacky Georges Lafargue and Louis Couturier visit unusual places and interact with the population. Their approach is as follows : surveying, photographing, videographing the environment, meeting women and men, creating singular and privileged moments, producing junctions between the intimate and the collective. They seek to reveal a world, a place of life through the association of words and images captured and then develop installations, events and protean works. Paul Ardenne writes about them : " Les places that Louis Couturier and Jacky G. elect. Lafargue are never chosen at random. Near or far, all are characterized by the existence of a social wound, a delicate cauterization or made problematic, due to particular circumstances, reports humains ".
