Artistic approach

 

Photography is for Marie-Fa Lazzari the search for an authentic relationship with the world in which she is. By looking at this world, she tries to approach what is essential to her : remaining capable of wonder and surprise.
To photograph is to know how to surrender to the moment to capture all its poetry and remain welcoming to this unique and ephemeral magic of the photographic moment.
It is  to feel the need to show differently, beyond the perception we may have of reality and the world. 

HURRY

Praise of Michel Bénard, laureate of the French Academy, Knight in the Order of Arts & Letters, art critic. Saturday, June 13, 2015. (Excerpt)

Marie-Fa Lazzari, Multidisciplinary professional photographer.

It seems to me that Charles Ciccione who is watching us at this moment is delighted with the judicious choice  that we have reserved for him this year. A female photographer with multidisciplinary skills. (…)  

Aspect having nothing insignificant, our laureate comes to us from the world of modern letters, as a professor, from the Paul Valéry faculty in Montpellier, before devoting herself to photography. Agree that it is no coincidence, Marie-Fa Lazzari was undeniably to be  closer to the French-speaking European Cenacle of Arts & Letters. Simple overview of his curriculum, Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, DEA in Letters. Then it will be the revelation of photography.

A real fascination operates in her, the play of light, shadow, interiority, the intimacy of the image transports her to the point of upsetting her life.

For her, photography is a gift, she tells us: "  To photograph is to make the light received a light offered. " Is there not here a form of altruism, of spontaneity to share ?

You should know that Marie-Fa Lazzari is a photographer in her own right, which isn't particularly common these days.

Already, she still works in film, makes her own prints in B&W and in color. Practice macro photography and various mixed techniques  allowing you to express yourself a little outside the traditional framework. However, digital is not prohibited.

Beautiful reminiscence with her studies in letters, she often inserts in her works of writing, texts or multiple poems which are put in adequacy with the image. She addresses practically all the themes of photography, with a few variations relating to abstraction, the imaginary, the ephemeral.

Marie-Fa Lazzari is thirsty for novelty, for the unusual. (…) His metamorphoses are impregnated with an extreme and sensitive poetic climate, appearance, shadow, transparency, suggested calligraphy, inspired breath. She transforms the world into unusual visions, the word metamorphosis is quite appropriate, everything becomes passion, the impulse of a heart offered to the opening of the lens.

Marie-Fa Lazzari maintains the magic of childhood and astonishment. (…) Transcend the ordinary image by making it sacred, by transforming it into an icon. To go so far as to inhabit the image. This leads our friend to build her own imaginary space, so she uses photomontage, collage, assemblage which allow her to discover other universes where poets can dream. These are indeed the mysterious games of metamorphosis where the imagination is king.

Through scanography, Marie-Fa Lazzari proceeds to fragment the object to recompose an image invested in mystery and poetry drawn from mineral or vegetal details.

Giving birth to new shapes, colors, textures, deformations. Playing again and again with astonishment, surprise, creative chance, revealing the invisible. Marie-Fa Lazzari also takes pleasure in paying tributes on selected themes such as The Birds by the master of mystery, Alfred Hitchcock. Thus our friend, from classic snapshots taken on the spot, transposes a fantastic and marvelous universe into the laboratory. (…) Translating this fleeting beauty in all its facets. (…) The work of the latter is marked with the seal of a dreamlike breath. Ultimately, Marie-Fa Lazzari becomes a poet of the image she hangs up for our greatest pleasure.

She teases visual abstraction, the fragmentation of the image, the destructuring of the ordinary visible to make an extraordinary composition enveloped in linear delicacies with watercolor shades. (…)

To photograph for Marie-Fa Lazzari is to go to the essential, it is to go in search of the image, to be attentive to the slightest fleeting or unusual sign, to detect what escapes our gaze and fix it on the film. . It is to combine in a fraction of a second the subject, the light and the shade. It is anticipating, authenticating, contrasting, perpetuating a situation, but above all always remaining in the astonishment and wonder of the child. 

 

Michael Benard.

Winner of the French Academy.

Knight in the Order of Arts & Letters.