Chloé Wasp

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How It Begins is a gradual immersion in the flames, following in the footsteps of a firewoman who is preventively burning forest in North Carolina in order both to regenerate the land and avert devastating wild blazes. In this immersive ambulation, the act of setting fire becomes an intimate and direct experience of the elements.

Chloé Wasp

Born in 1990, Chloé Wasp lives and works in Lille. After studying fine art and psychology, she graduated from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles in 2019 and then entered Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. As a photographer and filmmaker, her work focuses mainly on altered states of consciousness, the perturbation of vision and the relations between the human, animal and vegetable kingdoms. In 2024 she directed the films How it begins and Jaguars.

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