Chrystèle Lerisse & Cyril Herry

J’ai misé sur le feu

I Bet on Fire

October 13, 2022

Artist’s book

128 pages

140 × 210 mm

20 €

978-2-3588-7908-8

A man decides to leave behind his life to return to the essential. To melt into the forest. To sleep there. To feed there. To listen only to the life that rustles there. This forest is the one of his childhood and it still has for him the color of innocence. But as the days go by, it seems to him that another man has found refuge among these trees. Or rather a kid who looks a bit like the one he once was…

J’ai misé sur le feu is a dark tale that invites us to rethink our relationship with the world and with nature.

the authors

Chrystèle Lerisse is a visual artist born in Le Mans in 1960. She lives in Saint Gilles les Forêts (Haute-Vienne in France). She started photography in 1975 and apprenticed with Gilles Kervella (Niepce prize 1980). Since then, she has developed her aesthetic work where the use of silver and black and white are unchanging.

Cyril Herry lives in a village located in the Limousin regional nature park (France). He discovered photography at the École des Arts Décoratifs of Limoges and continues to practice it, in particular when he discovers abandoned places. Surveyor of paths and forests, he sometimes builds huts or sets up bivouacs in strategic places. He has directed the “Territori” collection at La Manufacture de livres and has published several novels, notably at the Seuil publishing house.