Views on Château Lafite Rothschild - 2024
Charlotte Dumas
Fascinated by the ambivalence of the human-animal relationship, photographer Charlotte Dumas takes an attentive look at the way we use animals and coexist with them.
In 2012, she began using the moving image alongside her photography practice. Her first video work, Anima (2012), features the horses of Arlington National Cemetery, USA, as they fall asleep at night in their stables.
“The idea that the state of humanity can be read and studied through the way we behave with animals” is the essential thread running through her work.
Then in 2015, she started working on the Stay photographic project on Japan’s remaining indigenous horses. Her sensitive eye has carried many projects.
At Lafite, she focused her lens on our beloved Landes Marine herd of 30 cows.
