Feræ by Aurélie Scouarnec

In contact with injured bodies, the space opens up for a face-to-face encounter with an animal ‘otherness’, where distances are recomposed and sometimes entirely removed. In the close proximity of this encounter with the wild animal, movements seek assurance and accuracy depending on the species. We learn to be attentive to the slight signs of an animal’s fear, watching the shelters, the linen sifting the light, the silence.A.S

Aurélie SCOUARNEC questions the ephemeral captivity of wild animals collected in care centres. Her photographs appear as sound boxes for the suffering of this wounded fauna with clumsy bodies in tension, sometimes in abandonment.

The hands of caregivers wrap around the animals. They handle carefully, dress up, disappear under the down feathers. They also take a vice, they enclose. Feræ thus reveals the vital pulse and luminous energy of what throbs and vibrates all around us.