“…the idea that living forms can merge into one another, that present-day species are undoubtedly the result of past transformations, and that the entire living world may be heading towards a future point, such that one cannot say of any living form that it is definitively established and stabilised for all time.”
Michel Foucault, Les Mots et Les Choses, Ch. V, « Classer »

Lise Sarfati’s work explores both the natural world and human nature. It focuses on living nature that flourishes in places deemed ‘wild’ or ‘abandoned’ by humans, as well as on human nature, as evoked by photographs of teenage girls captured within a fragment of nature.

When nature generates itself, it produces its own existence, its own laws, its own fractures, punctuated by the passage of light and shadow, creating forms and tensions. Nature envelops and covers all traces of human activity, sculpting a new, living landscape in a state of perpetual change. The young girls are photographed as integral elements of the landscape. They are at an age of constant change; they have no fixed identity, they are in the midst of transformation, but also in the midst of projecting their future lives.