This exhibition presents, at the Magasin Électrique, the photos taken during trans-Siberian journeys in China, Mongolia and Russia and published in the book East to East (Transsibériades) by Klavdij Sluban, winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2009. He travels by train in the Far East, searching for living creatures: fleeing animals and humans caught in the oppressive immensity and infinite silence that are always so extraordinarily perceptible in his work. ‘This area of consumed hatred is where Klavdij Sluban comes from, with Leica over shoulder and black-and-white film, to tell of the Easts to people who barely know there is one East.... The photographer’s standpoint clouds the issue. This casts shadows, and so the snow is dark, the light is washed-out white, exiled on the surface.’...‘The photographer rarely uses fast shutter speeds. ... He usually sets a longer pause for the closed aperture, so that silence pervades the film. Stillness needs more time to appear. Stillness is the state of grace of the messianic moment. It does not exalt what went before; it is the end of something.’

Erri De Luca