When the photo follows the course of the river

It's an unexpected encounter. Jumièges Abbey, one of the oldest and most important Benedictine monasteries in Normandy, stunningly beautiful. And contemporary Chinese photography, whose harshness translates into severe realism or melancholy poetry when it speaks of sacked nature. And yet, this meeting is natural. In the middle flows a river, that of the idealized landscape of the Chinese pictorial tradition, and this loop of the Seine where stand the white towers of Jumièges, almost 50 meters high, which makes it "the most beautiful ruin in France" and , since its destruction in the 19th century, the very image of “an open-air site strongly marked with romanticism” .

Time stops there, like the thought of the walker. Thirteen artists, mostly Chinese, bring their ambivalent touch, between anger and hope, between the distant past and the tense present, in the middle of the capitals and the sublime statues of the Lapidary Museum which was installed in 1954 in the

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