PARCOURS PARIS PHOTO

FRANCE - PARIS

PARCOURS PARIS PHOTO

Stephanie DULOUT

IN PHOTOGRAPHY
December 30, 2023

ACUMEN N°41

artist, exhibition, Photographer

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A great master of distortion, André Kertész (1894-1985) said he photographed not what he saw, but what he felt. With this in mind, we wandered the aisles of the world's largest photography fair 1 in search of the nuggets we bring you here: photographs that make you feel beyond the image...

We were captivated by the sensuality of this veiled face photographed in close-up by Judith Stenneken 2 at the Marshall Gallery (Santa Monica). Playing on both proximity through the choice of a very tight framing and distance through the use of black and white, giving the whole a marmoreal appearance, the photographer almost succeeds in making us feel the breath passing through the veil.

Less breathtaking, but just as beautiful and disturbing, is the series of elegant, sensual portraits by Uruguayan photographer Pablo Guidali 3 presented at VU' (Paris). Tangled, often blurred faces and bodies, with velvety blacks and whites sublimated by palladium prints on cotton paper.

With a more dreamlike, fantastical approach, Agnès Geoffray's latest series, Les Regardeuses, presented by Galerie Florent Maubert, is sure to intrigue.

A parallel interplay of looks was activated at the Patinoire Royale in Brussels, which, in collaboration with New York's Miyako Yoshinaga gallery, showed Ken Ohara's enlarged portraits (made up of 81 photos) from his One series, shot in 1970 on the streets of New York: a strange multiplicity of features in the uniqueness of face shape...

Still in black and white, the truncated portraits by young Neapolitan photographer Sharon Formichella Parisi, represented by Die Mauer (Prato), also impressed us with their poetic mise en abyme of looks.

Tirage pigmentaire monté sur dibond. Signé, titré et numéroté “Artist Proof 2” sur étiquette au dos.
61 x 76 cm

BODIES AND SOLITUDES

In contrast, Clarissa Bonet's City Space series, shown by La Galerie Rouge (Paris), reduces individuals to isolated silhouettes in the vast geometric spaces of cities, theatricalized by the play of light and shadow to the point of surreality. A similar sense of surreality emanates from the images by Constance Nouvel, winner of the Ruinart Prize, presented by In Situ (Romainville): limited here to a hand opening a door plunged into darkness, there to shadows, the human presence is enigmatic. Also enigmatic is Vladimir Antaki's Sleeping Beauty (presented at Galerie Tanit): a sleeping beauty lying on a staircase beside the pool of a select Beirut club, seemingly levitating, as if indifferent to the noise and fury of the world...

David de Beyter, Magical Place VII, 2022
2 x 150 x 100cm

David De Beyter's enigmatic landscapes at Galerie Bacqueville (Lille) re-exploit the stigmata of archival photographs used to construct UFO mythology: dazzling stains, scratches transformed into luminous lines... Exploring the boundaries between reality and fiction, his irradiant ufological 4 landscapes from his Les Sceptiques series question the programmed obsolescence of many of our beliefs based on the sheer illusory power of the image...
An unreality far removed from the real, unfiltered bodies photographed by Claudine Doury (In Camera galerie, Paris), Ren Hang and Marie Tomanova (Stieglitz19, Antwerp) or Yelena Yemchuk (Kominek, Berlin).