The dance is a ceremony, a tribal rite that resembles a journey to the interior of the soul and the Earth. The two bodies portrayed by Maël G. Lagadec in the LUNAR series are naked, primordial and not yet contaminated by terrestrial interferences, as if they were the mother and father of the entire human race, coming from the Moon.
Only the Moon, in fact, knows the secret of this dance, in which the bodies are a treasure chest that opens to a metaphysical world, giving the possibility to the sky to be reflected inside bodies of bones and muscles.
The man and the woman portrayed by Maël G. Lagadec do not hide the motions of the soul and the nerves in physical and emotional tension, nor do they hide the effort to rise to a verticality, which is the thrust of the spirit.

The contrast and play of mirrors between the two figures is not only conceptual but also visual and material. Black and white dialogue through the use of dust, the material of a lunar landscape, which joins the flesh of the woman, bringing out the tension of her movements. The dynamic aspect also characterizes the photographs of the man, his head covered in white powder, a metaphor for abandonment to nature, while explosive movements release the energy of a sacred ecstasy.
All of Maël G. Lagadec’s projects are online, as is LUNAR, for which a photographic book has also been produced and can be purchased from the French artist’s website.