Sentier national
(national trail)

2004

In Sentier national, April has chosen to record her relationship with nature over time – more precisely, within the temporal range that she uses to divide it into sequences. Once the images in the series are mentally collected together, they become a unique site of lived experience perceived within a time lapse that we imagine relatively short. Sometimes they are colour shots, sometimes black-and-white. This alternation emphasizes the paradoxical actuality of phenomenological experience that the artist persists in piecing together – a futile act, as she well knows. (...)

Jean-Claude Rochefort, Bifurcations, Notes, and Materials, excerpt