Les Affluents By Louis Perreault

In this black and white photographic series, Perreault follows the water, imbuing within its soft darkness a narrative of self. “In the hollow of the landscapes that I inhabit,” he writes, “les affluents (the tributaries) are these arms of“les affluents… create, through some magical phenomena, a refuge against the erosion of a poetic life” rivers, these points of confluence, these emotional flows, these sudden contacts and these entrenchments of selfishness that create, through some magical phenomena, a refuge against the erosion of a poetic life.” ‘Les affluents’ shows the tenderness of touch and the calm that immersive solitude can bring. But for Perreault, the water is not simply a space to project poeticisms, but something that he looks to for the “practical and aesthetic conditions that can lead…to the ultimate feeling of being alive.”