Sarah Ritter
at Gaspésie National Park

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Au fond du ciel
(At the End of the Sky)

Near the Discovery and Services Center | Gaspésie National Park

Sarah Ritter, Besançon, France | sarahritter.net

Sarah Ritter lives in Besançon, France, and works both in her own country and abroad.

She has won a number of awards, and has done several residencies in France (Oise, Brenne, Allier, Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and elsewhere in the world (Vietnam, Spain, Finland, Costa Rica). To date she has published four residency catalogues – Tangente, Auprès, Voies, and Fort – and is currently preparing the publication of a first monograph. She has various solo and group exhibits to her credit, including Nos heures at the Centre photographique d’Île de France and at the Institut Français in Freiburg, Germany; Les jours à venir le seront toujours at the Cable Factory in Helsinki; and Pictures for Nothing at the contemporary-art center Le Pavé dans la Mare in Besançon. She has also taken part, in France, in the Biennale de la photographie de Mulhouse, in Lille’s Transphotographiques and in the Voies Off festival on a number of occasions during Rencontres internationales de la photographie in Arles.

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Au fond du ciel
(At the End of the Sky)

Sarah Ritter doesn’t work through anticipation but through “opportunities,” for which she surveys various territories. Guided by the principle of obsession, she accumulates images then links them one to another, these making up a photomontage like a chorus. The photographs summon a narrative while at the same time preventing its closure, attracting the eye without actually providing the key to this tension. Au fond du ciel is a series of images mixing portraits and landscapes taken in very different places. Those places, without much in the way of points of reference, filled with “zones noires” (high-risk areas) and vanishing human presences, elude the dead-on vantage point. They experiment with a tipping point between the visible and the off-camera, in order to touch the profound nature of the photographic image.