24 Mrz 56 Days in Arles
Francois Halard
Last spring during the first lockdown, François Halard took one Polaroid every day for 56 days at his home in Arles. But this is not another Covid-lockdown publication. Under Halard’s lens, every object, every piece of furniture, every painting becomes a silent souvenir of time.
Halard is rarely not traveling; so this enforced confinement was, he says, an opportunity “to look at the light coming into the house, to look at books in my library, to have another way of looking at time”. The eclectic house, full of Proust’s Madeleines, evokes a sense of a life lived. The hazy, dreamlike quality of these images will immerse you in memories and imaginations, giving them an intimate and poetic dimension. While the whole world stands still, Halard’s house in Arles seems to breathe time.