Brodbeck & de Barbuat

[11] In search of Eternity (2012–2016) is a large body of work made of videos and photographs inspired by an ancient Sioux belief that the spirits of the dead continue to live among Humans, between the Earth and the sky.

The audio atmosphere was created in homage to the 1987 film Der Himmel über Berlin by Wim Wenders, and includes a poem by German author Peter Handke.

Evoking the link between Man and nature and the quest for self-knowledge, the voice is accompanied by a musical theme recalling the 1972 movie by Werner Herzog : Aguirre, the wrath of God.

The people's silent gestures and impassive looks distance the scene from its viewers to give a feeling of being just a vague memory, producing an interiorized narrative and imbiguous melancholy thought.

[16] Art historian Julie Enckell-Julliard stated «halfway between video and photography, Living images addresses the ineffable boundary between dreams and reality, that invisible thread linking us to the intangible sphere of the world of the dead.

With a slowness of movement resembling the last sigh of life, figures appear suspended in eternity.»[17] In Vertiges quotidien (2006–2009) the point of view from the sky or the ceiling, transforms the representation of the image into a pictorial composition.

"[4] Recreating the visual universe and proportions and erasing notions of perspective and depth of field so particular to photography, the project's point of view, like a spirit looking at humanity, transforms volumes into surfaces and blurs our usual references of reading an image.