Two photographers, two women, who came from totally different backgrounds and cultures, give us to read their personal and atypical universe. Claude Batho (1935-1981) focused on the simplest objects that constituted her daily life, familiar landscapes, and the people close to her. The apparent simplicity of representations gave way to sensitivity, a silent beauty. This simplicity is poetry and a triumph of banality. Woman gesture, Claude Batho’s photography must be read like a diary in which subjects are not extraordinary moments of life but insignificant and ultimately immutable moments.
Anni Leppälä, a young Finnish photographer born in 1981, through a set of images weaves a delicate narration, which is not linear and evokes a fantasy from another time. Through mise-en-scene close to theater, landscapes, atmospheres, photographs of her entourage, her little sister, masked characters, evoking sometimes the painting of the nineteenth century, sometimes the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke, she creates a new language in which the spectator is invited to lose himself and to let go his own feelings or memories.
Show what without you perhaps would never be seen. – Robert Bresson’s Notes on the cinematographer
Claude Batho / Anni Leppälä, Poésie de l’intime
September 29 to November 19, 2016
Centre Art Gwinzegal
3 rue Auguste Pavie
22200 Guingamp
France
http://www.gwinzegal.com/
