From 26 December 2025 to 10 January 2026

Monday to Friday 2 to 5.30

Saturday 10 to 12.30 & 2 to 5.30

Opening on Friday 26 December at 4.30

FIELDNOTES

by Madhuri K.

The rhythm of the seasons, crop rotation, rice growth, the alternation of day and night, sad or happy events, birth, death.

The abstraction of forms that are not immediately recognizable, a human or animal shoulder, feet, horns, fur, skin, earth, plants, textures, marks in the ground like scars, writing to be deciphered.

Shadows and light in stark contrast in these photographs dominated by an organic, dense, and inhabited black.

Life photographed without hierarchy, without complacency, without codes to decipher.

Life on a huge agricultural complex, Annapurna Farm, which feeds 3,000 people every day.

A reality in which Madhuri has been living, working, and photographing for the past five years. 

The fruit of these years at Annapurna is a book entitled Fieldnotes, part thesis, part logbook, composed of her photographs and texts in chronological order.

This exhibition brings together 30 of the most significant photographs from Fieldnotes, printed on precious silver-colored paper whose luminosity changes depending on the light it receives. The deep blacks serve as counterpoints to the most luminous forms.

Madhuri’s work is not descriptive. There are no landscapes, nothing that could identify a particular place. She uses photography as a memory aid, as a means of expression, to mark milestones in her life as a farmer and to tame it.

She contrasts the infinity of space and the monotony of a thousand years with a rhythm of vibrant images, charged with an intensity that we perceive without always understanding its nature or significance, which fragment time into moments and moments into meaning.

Through the image of fields, lying hens, or sheaves in backlighting, a complex representation emerges, in which, unbeknownst to the viewer, their own emotions, imagination, and memory are inscribed. 

Madhuri the photographer watches the crops grow while observing her own growth as an individual, as an artist, as a scientist expert in statistics and productivity increase.

She leaves us with the magic of captured light, cast shadows, the work of faceless hands, the breath of animals and the wind.

Dominique Jacques