ISABELLE
COULON
THE LOST WORLD
“I met the Tau't Batu on the island of Palawan in the Philippines in 2015 and brought back from this trip photographic material that, year after year, seems to become more and more precious. I was deeply moved to discover that another relationship to the world than our own can exist and even persist. From then on, this feeling has never ceased to accompany me.”
“I wanted to juxtapose, in a dreamlike setting, open to the journey of thought and the multiplicity of possible interpretations, the presence of these antinomic worlds that still coexist. But for how long?
The choice of superimposition emerges as an expression of the impossible coexistence between two diametrically opposed worlds: that of indigenous peoples and that of the "civilized" world. And at the same time, thanks to this process, a third path opens up, aesthetic and poetic, finding its existence in the result of this mixture.
Photographs by Isabelle Coulon - 2023