20 Menoc Hotel

photograph 43.5 x 63.3 cm

Strolling the countryside, Tania Mouraud captures, from 2007, the reflections of the landscape on the plastics which protect the straw bales. Subtle variations of shadow and light play on the surface of these opaque canvases whose folds articulate shapes and colors according to the whims of the sky. These images evoke Claude Monet and his “Meules” but also the atmospheric landscapes of John Constable or Joseph Mallord William Turner. The tension between figuration and abstraction is then brought to its peak. The title itself underlines this “border region” where the medium questions its limits.