Jardin d’essai is the first book of Maude Grübel.
Set of photographs taken in Algiers and its surroundings between 2009 and 2014, he alternated urban views with portraits and landscapes.
Walls, facades, roads, burnt wood, body and close off figures, statues and tissues follow one another, marked by a history that never ends – to go, to come back.
Archaeology present and biographical materials. Faced with the silence of the visible, the gaze is serene, almost surgical, but strangely lyrical in his way of suggesting, through textures and faults from outside the frame and the cracks of the intimate.