The New World Struggles To Be Born

This project explores the crumbling of old western models and myths, taking the Mediterranean region and identities as a liminal space.

"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born", melancholically wrote Antonio Gramsci some time ago. This melancholy seems to haunt us more and more vividly, as we watch imperialist systems crumble and the very existence of our species being questioned. Sand of noises (2018 - ongoing), a duo project by Marie Hervé and Elsa Martinez, explores this intuition of the crumbling of old Western models and myths, taking the Mediterranean region and identities as a liminal space. 

How would this suspended new world be built, what would we keep and what would dissolve in our common memories and narratives ? From Sicily to Greece, the South of France and the Middle East, Marie Hervé and Elsa Martinez have built a photographic journey exploring the Mediterranean region in its ambiguous and ever-changing definitions - thinking of the image as an obscure tool of memory between truth and falsity, mirages and spectres.