During my wanderings, I try to extract unsuspected details from the landscape. Using photography to modify the perception that I can have of reality.
My objective is to transcend these details, to offer them a new dimension, to tell, to question the history of a place, to trigger an investigation which plays with the true and the false.
This story, Wha-Tonne, retraces my arrival in Marseille and my discovery of the Panier district.
A very original district of Marseille, where the architecture, very singular, resembles that of the cities of the south-east of France, built between
the rock and the sea and inhabited by this «little something» which suddenly projects you in a cinematographic atmosphere. Caught up in this colorful maze, I branched off into the montée des Accoules to arrive at the foot of a building with a plaque indicating the location of the first observatory in Marseille, founded by the Jesuits in 1702.
This discovery led me to ask myself many questions; what had become of this observatory? What might it have looked like at the time? What is left of the research done by the astronomers? And where is their work today? What might space research have looked like in the 18th century?
To answer these questions, I have set up this investigation which illustrates the personal and dreamed vision I have of this place, and the real problems that inhabit it.
