Vasantha Yogananthan @ Paris Photo 2023 - Exposition présentée par The Photographers' Gallery, Londres

Vasantha Yogananthan

The Photographers' Gallery

Paris Photo 2023 

9 - 12 Novembre 2023 

The Photographers' Gallery (Londres) présente à Paris Photo 2023 une exposition personnelle du photographe français Vasantha Yogananthan (né en 1985).

Pour sa première série nord-américaine, Mystery Street, produite à la Nouvelle-Orléans à l’été 2022,  Vasantha Yogananthan nous invite à (re)voir le monde à hauteur d’enfant. Sous le soleil brûlant de la Louisiane, Mystery Street fonctionne à la fois comme une conversation avec le réel et une échappée vers une multiplicité de récits possibles, faisant écho à la liberté des jeux d’enfants. Les photographies de Vasantha Yogananthan laissent entrevoir la routine et les micro-évènements qui rythment le quotidien des enfants. Mystery Street donne à voir le strict minimum quant au lieu, au temps et à l’espace, conscient du poids que peuvent véhiculer les éléments figuratifs. 

Cette série marque un renouveau dans la pratique de Vasantha Yogananthan et pose un regard sur l’amitié, au croisement des corps et de leur environnement.

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY

16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW

thephotographersgallery.org.uk

PARIS PHOTO 2023

Grand Palais Ephémère

www.parisphoto.com

Clarisse d’Arcimoles @ The Photographers' Gallery, London

Clarisse d’Arcimoles: A Forgotten Tale
The Photographers' Gallery, London
19 August - 24 September 2016

A Forgotten Tale is presented as an immersive installation conceived for Print Sales Gallery. Using photography, set design and painting, Clarisse d’Arcimoles meticulously creates a life size, three-dimensional, black and white model of a room in a Spitalfields home as documented in a 1902 photograph.

Found in London’s Bishopsgate Institute archive, the photograph depicts a poverty stricken family of a mother and her six children in a common lodging house, located in what was once known as one of the most notorious slums in London. The image is a record of destitution, labour and hardship but also one of working pride and familial tenderness.

With great care and attention d’Arcimoles reconstructs the small and subtle marks which allude to the lives and experiences shared in the space. Often lost in the flat composition of an image, these details help transport visitors back to the Victorian East End and invite them to contemplate the circumstances and long forgotten stories of the picture’s subjects.

Also included in the exhibition are prints from d’Arcimoles’ celebrated series Un-possible Retour (2009) in which old childhood photos from the artist’s family album are presented alongside a contemporary restaging  of each original image. Prices start from £600 + VAT for framed works. A Forgotten Tale is supported by Arts Council England.

The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk

Alma Haser @ The Photographers' Gallery, London

Alma Haser: Cosmic Surgery
The Photographers' Gallery, London
Through 14 August 2016

Combining photography with collage and origami techniques, Alma Haser’s work seeks to expand on traditional portraiture and reflect on the concerns of millennial and future generations. This will be the artist’s first UK solo exhibition and includes prints from her critically acclaimed series Cosmic Surgery (2014-16) alongside never before seen 3D portraits and free standing paper sculptures.

Inspired by notions of surveillance and the increasing prevalence of beauty treatments, Cosmic surgery is imagined as a medical procedure to help obscure one’s identity from watchful government eyes or simply as a form of aesthetic improvement. The final prints are a kaleidoscope of facial features and curious shapes both unsettling yet compelling in their intricateness and construction. 

The exhibition coincides with the much anticipated launch of the second edition of Alma Haser’s self-published pop-up book, priced at £35.00. Prices for framed works and sculptures start from £500 +VAT.

The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk