Guillaume Chauvin and Delphine Gatinois
Entre Sibérie Et Aujourd’hui / Proies
07 Dec 2013 - 05 Jan 2014
GUILLAUME CHAUVIN AND DELPHINE GATINOIS
Anonymous
7 December 2013 - 5 January 2013
This double exhibition traces the development of two photographers, Guillaume Chauvin and Delphine Gatinois, who received individual grants in 2012 .
Guillaume Chauvin
“Russia scared me and therefore attracted me. So I chose Siberia, which even frightened the Russians, and went to work there one winter.
There were constant surprises there : an everyday surrealism, unsuspected multi- nationality, compatible historical paradoxes, etc.
I’ve tried to bear witness to this and to present, in my opinion, a more “realistic” vision than the conventional pessimism previously presented to me.
Photography as an excuse to approach my subjects ...
An extract, therefore, rather than a narrative between Siberia and today.”
Guillaume Chauvin
Delphine Gatinois
The artistic work of Delphine Gatinois is marked by the notion of a transition zone, of gaps leading from the real to the imaginary. This idea of transition is closely linked to the notion of myth and narrative devices that are permanently present in her approach.
In this series of photographs presented for the first time at Medina Art & Culture in Bamako, are the notions of crossing and imbalance associated with more specific themes such as nature, animality and metamorphosis in the context of the strange, the mysterious and the wonderful.
Numerous trips to Mali have sparked her interest in some of the beliefs, rites and legends of certain inhabitants. A new vision of the relationship between man and nature has arisen from this immersion, ending the distinction between humanity, animals and plants. He human body and nature come closer together, mingle and invoke a spiritual dimension opening uncharted territories of consciousness.
In Prey, Delphine works with the principle of staging. She questions the fragility and porosity of the threshold between man and animal and explores the ability to switch from one to another, to be in the other. She creates images based on rituals and sacrifices and reinvents the boundaries between reality and illusion.
Anonymous
7 December 2013 - 5 January 2013
This double exhibition traces the development of two photographers, Guillaume Chauvin and Delphine Gatinois, who received individual grants in 2012 .
Guillaume Chauvin
“Russia scared me and therefore attracted me. So I chose Siberia, which even frightened the Russians, and went to work there one winter.
There were constant surprises there : an everyday surrealism, unsuspected multi- nationality, compatible historical paradoxes, etc.
I’ve tried to bear witness to this and to present, in my opinion, a more “realistic” vision than the conventional pessimism previously presented to me.
Photography as an excuse to approach my subjects ...
An extract, therefore, rather than a narrative between Siberia and today.”
Guillaume Chauvin
Delphine Gatinois
The artistic work of Delphine Gatinois is marked by the notion of a transition zone, of gaps leading from the real to the imaginary. This idea of transition is closely linked to the notion of myth and narrative devices that are permanently present in her approach.
In this series of photographs presented for the first time at Medina Art & Culture in Bamako, are the notions of crossing and imbalance associated with more specific themes such as nature, animality and metamorphosis in the context of the strange, the mysterious and the wonderful.
Numerous trips to Mali have sparked her interest in some of the beliefs, rites and legends of certain inhabitants. A new vision of the relationship between man and nature has arisen from this immersion, ending the distinction between humanity, animals and plants. He human body and nature come closer together, mingle and invoke a spiritual dimension opening uncharted territories of consciousness.
In Prey, Delphine works with the principle of staging. She questions the fragility and porosity of the threshold between man and animal and explores the ability to switch from one to another, to be in the other. She creates images based on rituals and sacrifices and reinvents the boundaries between reality and illusion.