American Album | Eloise Labarbe-Lafon | Cé Editions 2025

American Album | Eloise Labarbe-Lafon | Cé Editions 2025"American Album is a book of images captured on the road, retracing a romantic epic in the United States, at a time when the American dream seems to be crumbling. A journey where the protagonists chase something elusive while fleeing an indefinite reality. The oil paint applied to the black and white photographs accentuates this oscillation between reality and illusion. Sometimes faithful, sometimes dissonant, it reinterprets the world, giving each

which can be very rough at times

I wanted to clarify where I came from

I believed in the sliver of light that was captured in the darkness

lamenting how the world is fake (i

There is still no plan or theory about this work

The goldent titles are partially faded

” In this smart and tender act of homage

often fantasized about and surrounded by a mystical mist

Here two forces intersect: plants wildly growing

amusement parks

" - from a text by Annemarie Zethof

connecting the surrounding communities