Saint Bathans Repetitions - Alexandre Larose, 2016

“In Saint Bathans Repetitions, an old mining cottage becomes the stage for a meditation not only on movement and gesture, but on the passage between interior and exterior, entrance and exit, window and world, youth and age, separation and return. Four hand-developed film studies of this interior/exterior space are separated by one interlude that is a shimmering sepia-silver ode to the surrounding topography of dry earth, rock and mineral of the once-mined terrain. Like other of Larose’s work, Saint Bathans Repetitions is a rumination on movement, a vision, much like some of the chronophotography of Etienne-Jules Marey, that distends and concentrates the flow of motion-in-time into a single space. Made by meticulously shooting dozens of super-imposed sequences on the same role of film, the work suggests, on the one hand, impermanence and the transitory state of all things, and on the other, the felt traces— as inexorable if evanescent celluloid impressions—that a body’s passage always leaves behind.”