PARIS PHOTO TRAIL

FRANCE - PARIS

PARIS PHOTO TRAIL

Stephanie DULOUT

DANCE PHOTOGRAPHY
30th December 2023

ACUMEN No. 41

artist, exposure, Photographer

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A master of distortion, André Kertész (1894-1985) said he photographed not what he saw, but what he felt. It was with this in mind that we explored the aisles of the world's largest photography fair¹ in search of the gems we present here: photographs that evoke feeling beyond the image itself…

This is how we became captivated by the intense sensuality of this veiled face, photographed in close-up by Judith Stenneken and shown at the Marshall Gallery (Santa Monica). Playing on both intimacy through the choice of a very tight framing and distance through the use of black and white, giving the whole a marble-like quality, the photographer almost manages to convey the feeling of breath passing through the veil.

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

Placing her research in a more dreamlike and fantastical field, Agnès Geoffray continues to intrigue with her latest series, Les Regardeuses, presented by the Florent Maubert gallery.

A parallel interplay of gazes was activated at the Royal Ice Rink in Brussels, which, in collaboration with the Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery in New York, displayed enlarged portraits (composed of 81 photos) by Ken Ohara from his One series, created in 1970 in the streets of New York: a strange multiplicity of features within the unity of the face's form…

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

Pigment print mounted on Dibond. Signed, titled and numbered "Artist Proof 2" on label on the back.
61 x 76 cm

BODIES AND SOLITUDES

In contrast, there is no real focus on Clarissa Bonet's City Space series, shown by La Galerie Rouge (Paris), where individuals are reduced to isolated silhouettes within the vast geometric spaces of cities, dramatized by plays of light and shadow to the point of seeming surreal. A similar sense of surrealism emanates from the images of 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. Equally enigmatic is Vladimir Antaki's Sleeping Beauty (presented at Galerie Tanit): a sleeping beauty reclining on a staircase by the pool of an exclusive 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

Still enigmatic, the landscapes of David De Beyter at the Galerie Bacqueville (Lille) reuse the marks of archival photographs that contributed to the construction of UFO mythology: dazzling stains, scratches transformed into luminous lines… Exploring the boundaries between reality and fiction, his radiant UFO-themed landscapes from his series "The Skeptics" question the planned obsolescence of many of our beliefs based solely on the illusory power of the image…
An unreality far removed from the real bodies photographed without filter by Claudine Doury (In Camera gallery, Paris), Ren Hang and Marie Tomanova (Stieglitz19, Antwerp) or Yelena Yemchuk (Kominek, Berlin).