They wear costume as one wears memory and traditions, riding proud mounts, companions on the road with white coats, and together they face the trials dictated by destiny. With ribbons, lace, petticoats, scarves, vests, trousers or shirts, against the wind or facing the marshes, five contemporary Amazons offer us a fragment of their lives on their lands, from the Camargue to the banks of the Aude.
Intimate stories emerge through textiles, in the accumulation of patterns, cuts, textures, symbols and memories. Garments and ways of dressing that sculpt bodies and identities, often sewn by their own hands, sometimes passed down from one generation to the next.
These women inherit a lineage that spans millennia.
In both their conventions and their freedom, they reveal a world in motion, an inner territory where only they hold the reins.
“Cavalcade” is a choral video-photographic work, at the crossroads of performance and documentary, bringing together five testimonies of women riders riding sidesaddle. Portraits built from an accumulation of garments, objects and memories, “Cavalcade” is an immersion into the materiality and intimacy of this living tradition. tradition vivace.
