Giorgio Carrera Marc Vidal Andre: Pagnol 2021 |top|

Carrera walked through the overgrown wheat fields and crumbling plaster walls in October 2020, capturing the "bones" of Pagnol’s world. His resulting 2021 series, Les Oubliés (The Forgotten) , features 24 large-format photographs. One image, now iconic among collectors, shows a rusted oven door half-buried in wild thyme—a ghost of the baker’s warmth. Marc Vidal was then commissioned to perform a monologue inside Carrera’s exhibition. But not on a stage. Vidal stood directly in front of Carrera’s largest print—a 2x3 meter image of Pagnol’s abandoned schoolhouse from Le Château de ma mère .

Giorgio Carrera and Marc Vidal did not revive Andre Pagnol in 2021. They buried him beautifully. And in that burial, they created something new: an art of elegant absence. If you wish to view Giorgio Carrera’s "Les Oubliés" series, contact Galerie du Panthéon, Paris. Requests for Marc Vidal’s 2021 monologue recording remain available via the Archives de la Parole, Marseille. giorgio carrera marc vidal andre pagnol 2021

He noted: "Carrera’s lens shows us what Pagnol saw, but drained of color. Vidal’s voice tells us what Pagnol wrote, but drained of certainty. 2021 is the year we realized you cannot go back to the bastide. You can only photograph its ruin." Curiously, the keyword "Andre Pagnol" (rather than Marcel) has become a meme in French online art circles. It is believed that a 2021 blog post mistakenly credited "André Pagnol" (Marcel’s lesser-known brother, who was a real estate agent, not a filmmaker) as the author of the original texts. This error propagated through translation software. Carrera walked through the overgrown wheat fields and