For this year's return to the Grand Palais, the gallery presents a booth centered on the notion of transmission through photographic creation. Considering it at first through the lens of transgenerational kinship, the exhibition explores the influence of elder artists on contemporary practices. Pairing Czech photographer Josef Sudek with FLORE, French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot with Juliette Agnel, British photographers Paul Graham and Martin Parr, and finally Ghanaian visionaries James Barnor and Ibrahim Mahama, each duo marks a renewed use of photography. These are followed by Photos-souvenirs, a trio of photographic albums by Carolle Bénitah embodying transmission through the self-portrait of a lifetime. Lastly, Jesse Willems' collages, based on photographs of everyday life, propose jigsawed compositions that question the becoming of an image beyond its transmission: what remains once it has disappeared ?
Pour ce retour au Grand Palais, la galerie consacre un stand à la notion de transmission dans la création photographique. D’abord envisagée sous l’angle de la filiation transgénérationnelle, l’exposition témoigne de l’influence d’artistes aînés sur des pratiques contemporaines. Alliant le photographe tchèque Josef Sudek et FLORE, l’artiste et astronome français Étienne Léopold Trouvelot et Juliette Agnel, les photographes britanniques Paul Graham et Martin Parr, puis les visionnaires ghanéens James Barnor et Ibrahim Mahama, chaque duo témoigne d’une utilisation renouvelée de la photographie. Vient ensuite Photos-souvenirs, un trio d’albums photographiques de Carolle Bénitah incarnant la transmission à travers l’autoportrait d’une vie. Enfin, les collages de Jesse Willems, réalisés à partir de photographies de la vie quotidienne recomposées à l’instar d’un puzzle, interrogent le devenir d’une image au-delà de sa transmission : qu’en reste-t-il une fois disparue ?
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'We keep buying things thinking 'that'll look better' and it just doesn't'
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'To come home in the evening to find the kids have carried out their own form of anarchy is just about the last thing I can face.'
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'Sue has definitely given the bathroom the feminine touch'.
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'Woodworm does generate through the furniture, and obviously if you're putting new things into your home the last thing you want is an invitation to worms.'
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'We wanted a cottagey stately home kind of feel.'
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'But in the 1960's this was really tiptop fashion.'
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