INTERSTICE

Built in 1850 by parishioners as an offering to the Virgin Mary following a cholera epidemic, the Chapel of Our Lady of Hope in Etables-sur-Mer, Brittany, served as a place of pilgrimage for half a century for the people of Terre-Neuve as well as fishermen in Iceland. On March 7, 2007, a replica was inaugurated in Felicity, in the Arizona desert just minutes from Yuma, by Jacques André Istel, the town’s founder and mayor, who named it after his wife Felicia. Wishing to build a sanctuary there on an artificial promontory, it was during a trip in 2004 that he discovered the seaside chapel that would become The Church on the Hill at Felicity. The Interstice series has no other ambition than to present a simple photographic mirroring device—Arizona/Brittany, 1850/2007—and thus reveal this space-time confusion governed by a curious coincidence. For, “what interests us in the image is not its function of representing reality, but its dynamic potential, its capacity to elicit and construct projections, interactions, narrative frameworks—devices that structure reality.” 1

1- Franco Berardi “Bifo,” L’immagine dispositivo.