The exhibition « Notre famille afghane, souvenirs d’une vie envolée » (“Our Afghan family, memories of a vanished life”) by Olivier Jobard is on display until November 24 at the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris.
Olivier Jobard is the winner of the 14th edition of the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Photography Prize – Academy of Fine Arts (2022).
This work is a continuation of Olivier Jobard’s encounter in 2010 in Paris with Ghorban, a young 13-year-old Afghan who traveled alone and clandestinely 7,000 km to flee his country and whose new life Olivier Jobard followed and documented. Eleven years later, in the summer of 2021, the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and the life of the teenager’s entire family was turned upside down, with the repatriation of his four brothers and sisters who were welcomed in France.
Between memories of a life blown away/stolen in the footsteps of the past of the members of the siblings in Afghanistan and projection into a new life to be built, this exhibition will present this double path of exile and reconstruction in a story always in the process of being written, made of geographical and temporal back and forth.
Olivier Jobard : Notre famille afghane, souvenirs d’une vie envolée
until November 24, 2024
Pavillon Comtesse de Caen de l’Académie des beaux-arts
27, quai de Conti
75006 Paris
https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/en/pavillon-comtesse-de-caen
