As part of the PhotoSaintGermain event, the Les Filles de la Photo association presents to the public the restitution of the first mentoring program. For a year, five women photographers were accompanied by godmothers from the world of photography. Each project was carried out as part of this sororal support. From November 4 to 20, the five photographers – Anne-Lou Buzot, Amélie Chassary, Juliette-Andrea Elie, Camille Gharbi and Elsa Leydier – exhibit at the Galerie des femmes, in Paris.
The Tilted Horizon Theory
Anne-Lou Buzot
The Tilted Horizon Theory is a project inspired by flatist theories (according to which the Earth is flat). It is a question of questioning – not without humor and derision – the framing of the image as such as well as the evidentiary value attributed to the photographs. The whole thing begins like a fable: in 2019, Anne-Lou Buzot finds a cardboard box in the cellar of a family home. Inside, carefully recorded photographic documents. Most belong to a curious institution, The New Inclined Horizon Society. The photographer then opens a photographic investigation which allows us to retrace the history of this incongruous theory and these… stunning images.
Godmothers
Raphaële Bertho, Lecturer in Arts, Exhibition Curator
Emilia Genuardi, Founder of salon A PPR OC HE & Director of CCR OC HE / Cultural Content
Autumn Flora, Impressions of a Wild Nature
Amélie Chassary
Flore d’Automne is like a poem where nature awakens every day of autumn. Amélie Chassary went to explore the forests of Bourgogne Franche Comté to glean the hues of these spectacular months, where nature passes from life to death in a drape of ever-changing colors. Branches, mushrooms and berries are captured in the workshop under the light of day, the brushes then come to tickle the leaves of the trees. From the outside to the intimate, from photography to painting, Amélie Chassary humbly reminds us of the enchanting power of this familiar nature
Godmothers
Julie Champin, Cultural projects coordination – Art purchase / Regard Suspendu
Clémentine de la Féronnière, Gallerist and publisher, Clémentine de la Féronnière gallery / Maison CF
FIRE)(SCAPES
Juliette-Andréa Elie
The planet is burning spectacularly. The bush and those who inhabit the forests of Victoria went up in smoke in 2019, and the images taken by Juliette-Andéa Elie just three years earlier on these territories too quickly became the archives of a vanished world. Without giving in to the temptation of nostalgic evocation, the photographer seizes this state of affairs to plastically question this tragic shift. The images are colonized with scientific data, duplicate and overlap to evoke the overlapping and fragility of our ecosystems. A veritable constellation of singular photographic objects that weave poetic paths between the beginning of disasters and the fertility of life.
Godmothers
Valérie Henry, Artist Agent
Caroline Stein, Patronage Manager / Neuflize OBC Bank
Camille Gharbi
Monsters don’t exist
This photographic work highlights the perpetrators of violent acts within couples, who are engaged in a process of reflection on taking responsibility for the acts they have committed. Through these people, our entire society faces its own violence. Violent spouses are not monsters living on the margins, but individuals who are most often very well integrated into the world in which they live. Their actions, due to their systemic aspect, speak to us about our world, its brutality, its injustice. This series is the second part of a long-term project that Camille Gharbi devotes to domestic violence, initiated with “Preuves d’amour”. The extracts from this series were produced with inmates from the Vivonne penitentiary center, in the Vienne, in spring 2021, thanks to the support of SPIP86.
Godmothers
Corinna Schack, Photographers Agent / PHOM
Véronique Prugnaud, Editorial and Development Director / The Eyes and The Eyes +
Les Désobéissances
Les Désobéissances (the disobediences) presents itself in the form of a photographic ecosystem which unfolds around the idea of ecofeminism – the thought that the oppression of women and the oppression of Nature find their source in the same causes, and that the liberation of each of them can only function if the other is liberated at the same time, as well as of all other types of oppression that govern the world. A complex set of relationships that the photographer attempts to map and then highlight in installations. An essay which constitutes a form of breeding ground, rich in paths which will take root or remain in seed form. The Brands, one of the first parts of the work, establishes a parallel between the control of life by giant seed seller and the control of women’s bodies in media and advertising imagery.
Here free seeds (or country seeds), prohibited for sale in many countries because they are considered “heterogeneous and unpredictable”, are put in relation to these smooth skins of glossy paper. As it grows, the plant colonizes these faces which find defects, cracks and wrinkles again, as well as the possibility of the random and the unexpected.
Godmothers
Emmanuelle Kouchner, Editor, founder of La Compagnie culturelle
Séverine Morel, Art Buyer, Image Director and Curator
Useful information
Les Expérimentales #1
From November 4 to 20, 2021
Espace des femmes
35, rue Jacob
75006 Paris
http://www.lesfillesdelaphoto.com/portfolio/lementorat/
