Cherbourg: Michka transforms boats into superb photographs

By writing La Presse de la Manche published Lela Presse de la Manchevovoir My News

Friday, November 5, 2021, at the other bar in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche).The young woman is still refining her work."I didn't even have time to change," she admits with a big smile.She is Marie Celate, alias Michka, her artist name.His work: take pictures of the boats of boats, but not just anyway.In very close macro.The result is surprising.

Michka, a native of the Saint-Lô-d'Oourville region (Manche), is a young seaside woman, accustomed to these boats whose hull tells the story.It all started on a shipyard where a boat shell, being renovated, attracts its attention.She begins to machine gun with her big lens and is amazed at the result.

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The photo has a side close to an impressionist painting.She just found her muse.Since then, she has been traveling the ports, from Cherbourg to Regnéville-sur-Mer via Diélette or Portbail.

The colors are all different between the light of the port, the salinity of the sea, the rust, the remains of paint and the sanding.So many elements that leave the visitor perplexed in front of these photos which nothing suggests that it is a shell.

He can see a forest fire, a pebble that makes ricochets on a pond, the seab corals.Everyone lets their imagination wander there, lost in front of the abstraction of shapes and colors.A photographic work close to the paintings of Mark Rothko, with her several colorful plans, whose work she admires.

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An ephemeral moment

Michka admits since having passed on smartphone, for the convenience of transport, storage, and also because the quality of these has particularly increased, but never retouching his photos."I hate filters," she jokes.

As she explains, "this is the passage of the hull of a boat to a photo.I give him a second life, because it's an ephemeral moment.Then he will be renovated.I like to immortalize the moment of nature.»»

It was the art gallery here and there Together, opened two years ago in Portbail, who chose Michka's work to exhibit fifteen works in the other place.The outdoor exhibition is held from November 5 to December 22.An invitation to reverie and travel, where everyone can give free rein to their imagination.

Of our Forest Axel correspondent.

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