Some journeys begin at the end of the street and only have a future in dreams. Below the path of planes that take off for faraway places, Dominique Issermann has chosen to unveil some unpublished work. The geographic territories that she suggests to us are in black and white. The frontiers are those of faces and bodies of which she is the gracious pilot. The landscapes and the reliefs are the subtleties of the photographic prints that she shows as if they were maps. In silence, in slow motion or into action, the images escape from time but not from place. Here, on the ground of Paris Airport, the travellers who raise their eyes will become visitors of the most beautiful museum in the sky.
Dominique’s photographs are like clouds displayed in a regular exhibition but whose stands she has eradicated. It’s not a fantasy to want to show to the greatest number, without paying for entry other than with a desire to look higher than the horizon. It is a will. It’s a wish that leads her to share her images with everyone, in an open urban space without partitions. The perception of this is not that an escape has been made possible. These are clocks whose hands have been stopped, for those who want to stop there, to rest there. The risk is that travellers, prisoners in this, her own, country won’t really leave.
Olivier Saillard Dominique Issermann, At Charles de Gaulle Paris Airport
From November 3 to December 9, 2016
In the airport’s 8 terminals Aéroport Charles de Gaulle
95700 Roissy-en-France France
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