EXPERTS’ SELECTIONS
CURATED SELECTIONS OF ARTWORKS BY RECOGNIZED EXPERTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD.
JÉRÔME PANTALACCI
THE BELIEF BY THE IMAGE
A photographic gaze
Photography, since its creation, has carried within it the validation of the viewer's credulity. It has been perceived immediately as a faithful reflection of the real. Which it has never been. Photographers have never limited themselves to this fidelity and have taken the camera to cast another gaze on the world and play with our perceptual senses.
At a time when digital technology and artificial intelligence allow for all manipulations, and where the image is constantly called into question, while photography has lost all validation of credulity and the viewer no longer believes what they see, some photographers continue to play with the camera, with the frame, with the mono-focal point of view, to produce images that lead us to look at the world differently.
To pay new attention to the world, just to get closer to the real or to change one's point of view is a rest for the eye in a world overwhelmed by invalid images that make us lose our belief in reality.
A photographic gaze
Photography, since its creation, has carried within it the validation of the viewer's credulity. It has been perceived immediately as a faithful reflection of the real. Which it has never been. Photographers have never limited themselves to this fidelity and have taken the camera to cast another gaze on the world and play with our perceptual senses.
At a time when digital technology and artificial intelligence allow for all manipulations, and where the image is constantly called into question, while photography has lost all validation of credulity and the viewer no longer believes what they see, some photographers continue to play with the camera, with the frame, with the mono-focal point of view, to produce images that lead us to look at the world differently.
To pay new attention to the world, just to get closer to the real or to change one's point of view is a rest for the eye in a world overwhelmed by invalid images that make us lose our belief in reality.
MARC DONNADIEU
FAMILY IMAGES (INDIAN SUMMER)
A photographic trip
This photographic trip focuses on the summer period, a time when one abandons the ordinary of daily life to experience this vacation time differently. It thus allows for the delicate capturing of new family stories, like the images of Hicham Ahyoud, Hervé Gergaud, or Anne-Marie Bertin.
The time of travel is decomposed and recomposed par excellence into visual fragments. The works of Henry Pouillon, Jean-Michel Ratron, and Catherine Ballet perfectly illustrate this through effects of contrast, distortion, or superposition.
For many, the beach is the emblematic territory of vacations. Many gather there while isolating themselves from others. The photographs of Cécile Ducrot, Emmanuel Passeleu, and Hégémon Chaignon thus restore human fragility in the face of the immensity of the marine horizon. But it is also a conquest of verticality, as testified by Gilliard Bressan and Sharlie Evans. One measures up to others as one embraces each other through almost aerial figures.
Photography is also a matter of colors and graphics, as affirmed by the melancholic sunsets of Ori Junior, Debbie Scott-Queenin, or Elke Matthaeus.
Luc Pallegoix finally inscribes, at the heart of summer nights, totemic animal figures that play as much with dreams. And what if we played during the summer?...
A photographic trip
This photographic trip focuses on the summer period, a time when one abandons the ordinary of daily life to experience this vacation time differently. It thus allows for the delicate capturing of new family stories, like the images of Hicham Ahyoud, Hervé Gergaud, or Anne-Marie Bertin.
The time of travel is decomposed and recomposed par excellence into visual fragments. The works of Henry Pouillon, Jean-Michel Ratron, and Catherine Ballet perfectly illustrate this through effects of contrast, distortion, or superposition.
For many, the beach is the emblematic territory of vacations. Many gather there while isolating themselves from others. The photographs of Cécile Ducrot, Emmanuel Passeleu, and Hégémon Chaignon thus restore human fragility in the face of the immensity of the marine horizon. But it is also a conquest of verticality, as testified by Gilliard Bressan and Sharlie Evans. One measures up to others as one embraces each other through almost aerial figures.
Photography is also a matter of colors and graphics, as affirmed by the melancholic sunsets of Ori Junior, Debbie Scott-Queenin, or Elke Matthaeus.
Luc Pallegoix finally inscribes, at the heart of summer nights, totemic animal figures that play as much with dreams. And what if we played during the summer?...
SONIA PERRIN
THE FOREST OF DREAMS
Their testimony, in the selection offered here, highlights the beauty and richness of the living world through works that question the place of Man in his community. Networks or roots, branches or social fabrics, Man, just like the tree, flourishes within a living and global organization.
This link is not lost on artists who, in their representation of the plant world, denounce the imprint of Man on his environment, and encourage us to become aware of the vital nature that we have to modify our being-in-the-world.
SONIA PERRIN
COUPS DE ❤️ ART-O-RAMA
THE DRAWER
RAINBOW PORTRAITS
STARTER
ARTYSANAT
By turns craftsmen, designers, photographers, sculptors, and sometimes all at once, the artists in this selection produce works that are veritable condensations of technicality, whether automated or manual. While they sometimes call on cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, they also revisit ancestral methods where calm and patience are de rigueur, the combination of these skills leading to a redefinition and new incarnation of aesthetic codes.
Is it still possible to distinguish the work of man from that of the machine?
This tour questions the role of the hand in contemporary production, whether by its absence when it is replaced by an algorithm, or by its obvious presence when the work reveals a commitment to the artist's gesture and body.
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IMAGINING THE INVISIBLE
THE DRAWER
THE ART OF BLURRING
STARTER
NEW PERSPECTIVES
Through their work, these artists convey values of inclusion, witness and respect for difference.
The selected works explore shifting identities in both discourse and form, illustrate dreams and inspirations, raise awareness of sexual and gender discrimination, challenge heteronormative and cisgender models, and above all reject injunctions to fit into boxes.
Through their work, these artists convey values of inclusion, witness and respect for difference.
The selected works explore shifting identities in both discourse and form, illustrate dreams and inspirations, raise awareness of sexual and gender discrimination, challenge heteronormative and cisgender models, and above all reject injunctions to fit into boxes.