Le photolittéraire entre fiction et non-fiction : quelques espaces polysémiotiques et polymédiatiques autour de l'idée de 'pays'

The philosophy of this project emanates from Perec’s "species of spaces" : page, book, two-faced postcard, henceforth screen. These graphical supports, both photographic and textual, refer to other spaces, the "countries", depicted in photoliterary collections related to the history of travel and tourism as well as in postcards epistolary art pratique. The notion of "fiction" is at the core of the project for it encompasses combined referential dimension (intrinsic quality of all photography) and its narrative extensions and issues : such as the construction of singular and collective identities, the link with veridictional discourses and the art forgery that Perec himself develops in A Gallery Portrait, and through which we can consider the contemporary literature. The approach aims at reversing the usual led researches : not to analyse the spatial induced representations, but to explore how literary, photographic, fictional and narrative discourses usher in productions of mental spaces. The very limited study of this corpus at the intersection of well-established and peripheral arts that the project seeks to further and enhance allows a survey of in-between zones and pervasive interferences of fiction and nonfiction representative of a myriad of contemporary works and tendencies both photographical and literary.