Michèle Soria, known
among her friends as Minouche, lives and works in Las Terrenas since 1994.
From here she wants to share with us her “Small Recipe for Happiness”
or how to live Happy in Las Terrenas
Before putting my suitcases here,
I left of side
my important words,
Solitude, Preoccupation, Being in Crisis,
None of that was on trend here,
Immediately I took off the
shoes and I walked by the
sand,
I took a handful from beauty that
I kept preciously,
I smelled the perfume of life,
I jumped
to reinvent the Spanish,
Nobody judged me, nobody made fun of me
I rediscovered the curiosity, like when I was a child,
Patient, because the time is not important here,
I added
humor and smiles,
Ah! I never forgot the respect and the friendship
towards the inhabitants,
I mixed everything with enthousiasm,
And I obtained a cocktail of incomparable Happiness,
Las
Terrenas, I am so well here...
Speaking about
Minouche work is speaking about Movement. Living and
working in the
areas of Theater and Cinema, admirer of the painters,
she was always
fascinated by the image and the gesture. In her opinion
these arts were
worthy to be written with capital letter. On the
contrary, she considered
the photography like a smaller art,
restituting only a restricted, fixed
world, without life
Her encounter, in 1978, with J. P. GUYOT,
photographer, but first
of all a great painter, made her learn the
photographic image
exactly as a painter would do, - learning to see the
light, loving
the spots, accentuating the shades, proceding by touches,
colors or contrasted black whites. She started to review her opinion. Just a
short
time later, a new vision of the photography, through the
North
American picturist Scott Mac Leay, changed all her a priori.
He
taught her to work ,without vacillating, the
superpositions of
images, and other techniques that allow to move away
from the reality to
arrive to the abstraction. Thanks to these two
personages, she became a
photographer, in search of her own expression.
Her search
of the movement is the precise moment in which the body is
in
weightlessness in the space, taken off of the real, moment,
fraction of
suspended second, in complete union with the universe,
like dancing with
the world, the gesture becoming rithm, a hymn in
which the man reaches
the magic of the Earth.
Michèle Soria has made 7 exhibitions in
Paris, 2 in Belgium and one in
Spain.
To contact the
artist:
Mail Michele
Soria
Tel.: (809) 977 05 97
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