Space, light, and sensitivity are at the heart of the quest of the “hunter-gatherer” Erik Samakh, as he calls himself, echoing a Rodin who was “a seeker of truth and observer of life.” Nothing imposes itself brutally on the walker: the proposal is rather for a delicate discovery of biotopes. Little lights to which we pay attention, or not, like tuning a musical instrument. Experimenting with a symbiotic way of inhabiting the earth, we allow ourselves to be touched by an invisible strangeness. The reality of this art is imperceptible, but transformation is continuous. Ephemeral signs of a fragment of human history, too earthly to be stars in the sky, luminous and autonomous, become symbols of vanished freedoms for Pasolini, but also symbols of survival and hope in the vision of Didi Huberman*. The visual artist Erik Samakh establishes a constant dialogue between beings and environments, transforming places into spaces of listening; his work has been carried out in natural settings such as: Réserve géologique de Haute-Alpes, UNESCO Geopark, Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, Centre international d’art et du paysage de Vassivière, Jirisan National Park in South Korea, etc).

* Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 The Disappearance of the Fireflies
**G. Didi-Huberman 2011 2011 Survival of the Fireflies

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