Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg is an actress, singer and director. Since her very early debut, she has carved out a career spanning cinema, music and personal projects, both in France and internationally.
Alongside her work in film, she has forged a musical path where songwriting, vocals and performance proffer a different extension of her connection to emotion and intimacy.
In 2021, with Jane par Charlotte, a film dedicated to her mother Jane Birkin, she shifts her focus even further towards the gaze, portraiture and the staging of presence. Thus, her career traces a constant movement between forms, with a specific emphasis on what faces, voices, places and silences can convey. Through cinema, music and images, Gainsbourg conducts a personal body of work, driven by the same commitment to truthfulness and deep intimacy.
I’m in your house.
I look before it slips away. Alone here. No one’s around. I take my time.
My lenses. My tripod. My Hasselblad.
Taking my tools out of backpacks. I look like a burglar.
Sometimes in the day. Sometimes at night.
I feel my loneliness.
I pick. no touching.
I just look. I just steal.
I steal before it’s too late. Before all of you come in. Into my lair. My hideout.
So this is a new step. A new goodbye. Another angle.
Forever alive.
Some thirty years after her father’s death, Charlotte Gainsbourg photographs the interior of his house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil in Paris. With her Hasselblad, she captures this place, dense with memory, before it opens to the public. Photography becomes a form of contact, an attempt to register a presence, to come closer to her father’s ghost.
This exhibition is organized in partnership with Saint Laurent and Maja Hoffmann.
Venue
La Galerie du Cloître
Curation
Matthieu Humery
Practical Information
Festival dates: July 6 July – October 4, 2026
Opening Week: 6–12 July, 2026
All-exhibitions pass: €42 (reduced: €33)
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