From one moment to the other

Southern hemisphere, northern hemisphere, 15000km between these two islands. On one side Mauritius situated on the legendary Spice Route, where the Old Occident and the mystical Orient meet. On the other side, Cuba, in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, half way between the United States in the north and South America. In the morning sweetness, behind the turquoise waters of the lagoons, the softened colours of a well-lit architecture. The colour we like as a garment on a bare wall. A well-arranged collection of colours aiming at a sensation of harmony. In addition to that, light and shade enlarge the scenery on every side and make us forget the ground. Coloured game on the wall. It could be illustrated, moved forward, backward, changing in front of our eyes. Finally, there is the isolated figure, alone ,standing out of the red of the front walls.

What Brigitte Ollier thinks of the photographer Aurélien Voldoire : "There’s the desire of lightness in these photographs, as if sometimes he was weightless, enthralled by the beauty of colours, of shapes. Aurélien is waiting for a movement, we can imagine him on the watch, in the summer heat, under an empty sky, and suddenly, as a flash, there’s this gesture or this stealthy passer-by that he enjoys capturing. And keeping in his box as a landscape he has made his own"