“ Like many boys, I was passionate about aeroplanes. Much later, I had the opportunity to participate in an airshow in England,
where I was able to board a B-17 Flying Fortress, one of the bombers the United States Army Air Forces employed during the Second World War. From the cockpit window I saw another bomber : an English Avro Lancaster.



                                    In a flash everything came back to me :


The 1944 aerial bombing by 126 Lancaster planes that demolished the Place
de la Visitation in Angers,
where I lived as a child.”



                                                                                                                    

From a childhood experience of the bombing of the city
of Angers during the Second World War, Bomber begins with the view of a negative
of a leaf found in Jean Larivière’s garden.
The enlarged microcosm observed in the photograph of this leaf resembles –
in an astonishing way –
the view of an aviator from inside a bomber : roads, fields, rivers, agglomerations, forests, even the glow
of the bombs’ explosions.


Bomber is a photographic installation combined with sound. The noise of the bombers in flight was recorded by the artist at a military airport in England. The spectator is immersed
in the sonic reconstruction
of the sounds of the 126 Lancaster planes that bombed the square
in Angers.