As part of the Rencontres d'Arles 2025 Off Festival, the Porte B. gallery is pleased to invite you to the solo exhibition of the duo Pierre & Florent, entitled It's a very beautiful day.

Created during an artist residency in Hiroshima Prefecture in the fall of 2024, this series extends their sensitive exploration of memorial sites, begun in 2024 with Champ de foire, portraits of descendants of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. This work profoundly transformed their relationship to traumatic memory and continues to inform their approach to documentary photography.

In Hiroshima, Pierre and Florent expected nothing. But as soon as they left the station, a shiver ran through them. They looked up: an immense sky, a blue of almost unsettling depth. This sky, still and indifferent, bore witness to a past that still resonates.

On October 13, 2024, they captured this sky at the Peace Memorial Park, where flowers replace bombs, where daily life mingles with the shadows of the past. These suspended images, embroidered with fragments of indigo, compose It's a very beautiful day.

A title borrowed from the words of the Enola Gay's co-pilot in his diary on August 6, 1945. A terrible sentence in its banality. A sentence that, 50 years later, is echoed by Yoko Ono: "The sky over Hiroshima is always blue."