Clark and Pougnaud - Eden series

A French artistic duo, based in Paris made up of photographer Christophe Clark, born in 1963, and painter Virginie Pougnaud, born in 1962. Clark and Pougnaud work and live in Paris. They began their artistic collaboration in 1999.

After years of creative activity in Paris, the artists have felt the need to take a break to relax and try the experience of a return to nature. It is in Charente that they found the ideal place to work in total harmony with their environment, immersed in the rural and agricultural world of the region.

From this artistic retreat, they bring back a surprising work devoted to nature. If they have chosen not to show a character in this series, their approach remains the same: staging, photography and painting mingle and take us into their poetic universe.

Clark and Pougnaud painted and photographed according to the seasons and the crops. The Eden series is made up of fourteen “garden photographs”, pieces of life taken from nature, just outside their door, in their vegetable garden, on paths or in bushes. The images come from their immersion in the silence imposed by the winter months, the springtime rebirth and the hyper activity of nature in summer. It supported them throughout the year; they lived at their own pace to understand and represent it.

All images copyright Clark et Pougnaud