Le Temps de l’Immaturité

Nolwenn Brod followed in the footsteps of Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969). From Poland to Argentina via Paris and the south of France, in Vence, she traced his path, guided by the writer's beloved Time of Immaturity.

Set against the political and social context of their time and the long span of history and memory, Nolwenn Brod's photographs depict a present moment of immaturity in action. Memory and pain surface and leave complex marks on the skin of those photographed. 

Nolwenn Brod's images offer an amalgam of expressed sensitivity, multiple expressions of desire, and sensuality materialized in a shared present. As much as a feeling of being skinned alive. Religious ecstasy mingles here with powerful sensuality. Violence rubs shoulders with gentleness.

It is a delicate art. You have to let it come to you in order to create. Tact, a gaze without intrusion. The gaze becomes benevolent but direct when it comes very close and reveals its subject.