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Patterns, Note Note Collection n°4For this fourth opus, in collaboration with Sophie Pinet , Roe Ethridge has chosen the shell. An ideal pretext for inviting us to embark on a journey with him, beyond the clichés of popular culture and art history, to evoke memories of his tender age spent by the Atlantic Ocean. But that's not all. Through this motif, the photographer takes us to the heart of his humorous photographic work, which has never ceased to push back the boundaries between commercial commission and artistic practice, between the intimate and the collective, between a vision anchored in reality and one completely fantasized.

"One of my earliest memories is of a Persian rug at my childhood home in Abu Dhabi - I loved looking at it for hours, projecting myself into its maze of vines, trees and peacock feathers. I wanted so badly to teleport to this world that I believed was real and animated inside the carpet. Patterns are repetitions of form and theme, but beyond that, they are universes to fall into -- geographic planes with rules of their own. Patterns, even when clashing, say something about aspiration, self -reflexiveness and belonging. They tell us about time and place, texture, touch, desire, and time. The universe beyond the pattern (and the medium photography, too) is a space where gravity gives way and where we are removed from our physical bodies, floating - a kind of paradise where we can leave the real world behind". Farah Al Qasimi