Photography exhibition: Dans la gorge du dragon

Marie Moroni’s photography exhibition “Dans la gorge du dragon” is on show at the Pont du Gard, in the Espace Accueil en Rive Gauche, and leads visitors into the Gardon Gorges, far from the usual trails.

The Gardon Gorges: more than twenty caves inhabited since prehistoric times

The Gardon Gorges are a “wild, rugged, often impenetrable” landscape. People have lived here since prehistory, and more than twenty caves show that the site was occupied without a break.

In her photographic narrative, Marie Moroni sets landscapes and caves in conversation, plant life with rock, darkness with light. The series draws on Plato’s allegory of the cave and asks what remains hidden as well as what reveals itself to the eye.

Dans la gorge du dragon evokes a raw world, both a refuge and a mystery, firmly anchored in our natural heritage.

One exhibition in three venues: the Pont du Gard, Uzès and Nîmes

The exhibition is shown at the same time at the Pont du Gard, the Prieuré Saint-Nicolas in Uzès and the Nîmes Tourist Office. It offers a “poetic immersion” in a heritage that is both natural and human, shaped since prehistory.

Marie Moroni, a photographer near Uzès whose work has won prizes in France and abroad

Marie Moroni is a photographer who lives near Uzès. She spent more than fifteen years as a set designer and visual artist before turning to photography full time in 2016.

Her meeting with the embroiderers of Rutongo in Rwanda was the starting point of her personal work. There she built an authorial voice grounded in documentary photography. Her series, fed by intimate experience, probe memory and forgetting in a constant search for truth. Her work has received prizes and has been exhibited both in France and overseas.