Water and nature occupy a very important place in Eric Maillet’s works. Water is captured in many forms; snow, ice, bubbles… Maillet’s images reduce nature to its simplest element allowing one to contemplate its unexpected aesthetic. The female body also holds an important place through his work and finds a harmony in the artist’s nature-focused universe. Maillet’s work has always taken into consideration that an open book or magazine invites the reader to look at two images simultaneously and this book presents his work in this way. Maillet chose the paradoxical words ‘Silent’ and ‘Conversations’ to reflect the relationship between his images used to create diptychs. He wanted to underline the exchange between each image and indicate that it is in the middle that things happen, causing us to ask ourselves questions. The photos are silent yet they tie together a long personal

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