The EXILES / REMINISCENCES trilogy evokes a family history of emigration over four generations. France, Germany and Italy, in turn countries of exile, intersect and merge into series of images mixing past and present, imaginary and reminiscences. Christine Delory-Momberger searches each image, photographing it and re-photographing it in an incessant quest, trying to cross its surface to reveal the hidden part of an individual and collective story. Faces emerge, silhouettes emerge, landscapes appear, and new images come together, crossed by a dull violence, forming an uncertain, haunted story, that she makes her own.
This trilogy consists of three parts / chapters
– stretching out over the abysses
– in the breath of the labyrinth
– disappeared from the living
Christine Delory-Momberger, author-photographer, academic and essayist. As a scholar and researcher, she has built a new field of scientific investigation in France, the “biographical research” and she has published numerous books and articles in this field. In terms of her interest in biography and her relationship to photography, she has also to her credit several publications on photography, including books of interview with photographers (Antoine d’Agata, Jane Evelyn Atwood), and she regularly speaks on the subject of photography in international conventions. She is completing photographic work on the intimate, the memory, the personal history and the collective history in which she mixes in an intuitive gesture personal or anonymous photographs, images of archives and recent images. Her work has been the subject of several exhibitions in France and Latin America.
She regularly hosts “Shared Creation Workshops” that offer biographical work around personal photographs.
Christine Delory-Momberger – Exiles / Reminiscences
May 14 – June 8, 2019
The New Clear House
3 Rue d’Arras
75005 Paris
