artist/ ANEMICHE

France

Nadia Anemiche, an experienced photographer, draws inspiration from her travels to create a dreamlike work under Asian influence. Inks are used either to enhance a photograph or to capture its nuances.

“At the end of each session in the workshop, there is the ritual of washing the brushes. The trickle of water flowing, the bristles of the brush that we caress in the palm of the hand, the particles of the black smoke of ink which swirls, dissolves and prolongs the session in a fluid, fascinating, ephemeral abstraction.
A floating and moving world is then presented to my gaze, reduced to the perimeter of the sink.
Depending on the intensity of the water pressure, imaginary and furtive landscapes emerge of a dreamed Japan within which I can navigate to find the islands, the seas, the rains, the waterfalls, the water temple fountains intended for the purification ritual…
And, in turn, linking inks (sumi, 墨) to photography…”