REMEMBER HOW THEY TOLD US NEVER TO LOOK DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN - ANAÏS LESY
Anaïs Lesy (b. 1995, Belgium) is an artist and photographer who graduated with a MA in Visual Arts/Photography from the Luca School of artist Campus C-mine Genk.
Lesy’s photography comes from a place of curiosity and fascination with the world around her. She photographs to capture the moments and to not forget. The predominantly black and white imagery appears to be timeless and therefor standing for sometime bigger than a simple documentation of reality. Lesy’s work can be characterised by a strong sense of aesthetics and use of light. The mystical and poetic sceneries she creates, encourage the viewer to take a break from the everyday reality and wonder around.
Her newest photographic series “Remember how they told us never to look directly into the sun” and the publication of the same name, takes the viewer on a journey thought mysterious landscapes and intriguing characters. Lesy started the project by collecting various objects found in nature. Step by step the work became a narration thought the complicated relationship humans have with nature. Despite needing each other in order to survive the human ways of living seems to disregard nature and the environment.
