ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Under a better moon is the result of pure manifestation of 2 Souls, from Abua Odual (River State,Nigeria) and Paris (France).
This project tells the story of two artists discovering each others’ work, and instantly bonding. Since 2020, dancer Lucky Plucky and visual artist Pauline Raybaud kept sharing art through confinement, somehow just knowing one day we would meet and create together, under a better moon...
Last September, Lucky was part of the international Pina Bausch Tanztheatre tour! With just one day off in Paris. We seized the occasion, and the magic happened.
Paradoxically, nowadays world offers opportunities for people to connect around the world through social media, and we could have virtually worked on a project despite the distance. But in a ever changing art world, it was important for us to believe our artistic bound would reunite face to face, allowing us to really create from the core of what performance photography means: the eye of the photographer being physically connected to the motion of the performer, and the story he is telling in the instant. From a virtual meeting, we made our arts connect on a humane level.
From the collaborative pictures, it was even more important for me to go dig into the paradox between the virtual and man-made arts, and bring back the photographs to the core of their own art: the darkroom. I created the series under the warm red lights, the magical place where we touch the essence of lights and shades. I hand developed the photographs, edited them, and manually created the effects of lights and shades imagined, with crystals, chemicals, fabrics and feathers.
Some things take time...
Until we meet again,
Under a better moon.

AUTHOR
Pauline Raybaud is a french-belgian photographer, author, and performer. She studied fine art at Central Saint Martins London, where she looked into the realms of analogue photography and filmmaking, going back to the essence of these mediums, later merged with writing and performance art. Her vision got her to dig even more into the world of literature, resulting in further Master studies at Sorbonne Paris. From there, her practice led to work with the merging of these various means of expression, allowing her to extend her research and new ways to convey it. Along, she kept training as an actress both in Paris and London, exploring more ways of physical expression. She is now works between these two cities, but kept her studio base in her hometown, Ghent Belgium.
in her practice, Pauline explores the merging of literal and visual arts, as well as body language and the freeing of emotions. Her work combines cinematographic medium as well as photography, mise en scene, and writing, with a will for collaboration and inclusive approach toward the notions of identity. Inspired by literature and mythology, her work is tinted by poetry, whilst addressing the realms of nowadays questionings, with a feminine eye.

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