Anthropologically speaking, fireworks stage the world: explosion, dispersion, disappearance. Their grammar is universal, a burst, an expansion, an extinction, replaying before our eyes the cycle of beginnings, peaks, and ends. In each flare, colour regains its original power: to signal, to gather, to move. It speaks an ancient language, one with which societies have always represented power, celebration, jeopardy, or the sacred. In modern times, fireworks have become a painting of time. Artists and photographers, such as Mario Amura, see them as a laboratory where exposure, duration, and movement transform the explosion into a luminous script, an image that is no longer instantaneous but processual, trace and pure invention at once.Napex 2310142

Sylvain Bellenger