FRANCE - PARIS
Swapping color for black and white, Gregory Crewdson plunges us into deep, disillusioned America with a new series that's more crepuscular than ever. Entitled Eveningside, this latest instalment in a trilogy developed since 2012 is presented at Galerie Templon in Paris, after having been shown at the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles this summer. The result of a superproduction worthy of a film shoot (both in terms of the
preparations 1 and the sophisticated equipment and lighting requiring a team of 40 people), Gregory Crewdson's shots draw the framework of scenarios "whose beginning and end we know neither". In short, freeze-frames. This impression of suspended time is even more pronounced in his latest series, where the use of black and white accentuates the frozen appearance of the characters portrayed and the eerie strangeness of deserted streets. Suburban landscapes transformed into fake backdrops, immobile characters as if petrified, frozen in their daily activities, ambiguous plays of transparency and reflections (through mirrors or store fronts), highlighting of vehicles or transitional places (road crossings, cabs, porches, mini-markets...), effects of rain or fog...

Here, Gregory Crewdson pushes the boundary between reality and fiction even further. His black-and-white palette conjures up classic cinema and mid-twentieth-century film noir. What better way to arouse the curiosity of viewers, who are called upon to "make their own interpretation", to "invent their own version of the story" for each of these fabricated images? Gregory Crewdson's stagings require the streets to be completely emptied and closed for several days.

"GREGORY CREWDSON. EVENINGSIDE"
GALERIE TEMPLON
28, RUE DU GRENIER-SAINT-LAZARE, PARIS 3E
TILL DECEMBER 23, 2023
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