Centre d'Art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France
www.cac-passerelle.com
Passerelle is taking part for the first time in the initiative entitled 'A photographic journey through Brittany' which presents a photographic exhibition trail across the whole region every two years. This monographic exhibition by Laura Henno entitled 'Grande Terre' (Great Earth) is part of a broader presentation of the 'Radioscopie de la France' photographic commission aimed at photojournalists and supported by the National Library of France (BnF). Awarded this bursary, Laura Henno engaged in work that was artistic, committed, poetic and almost sociological, pursuing this in Mayotte from 2013, the date of her first visit to the Comoro Islands, the archipelago to which the island of Mayotte belongs. In her work she shows various ways of resisting oppression; this is precisely what attracted her to Mayotte, following the life of teenage gangs that survive on the coast of this land of contrasts, long forgotten by mainland France.
