At the Galerie Agathe Gaillard, in Paris, the photographer Emmanuelle Bousquet is currently showing some photographs drawn from her two most recent series: Stigmate, self-portraits taken with a Polaroid which she reworked, and Sisters, where she set up a dialogue between her body and that of her sister. She offers us a dreamlike immersion into the intimacy and the mysterious world of sibling relationships. Emmanuelle Bousquet, who has been taking photographs since she was a teenager, has been cradled in the world of fashion, its beauty but also its harshness. Her photography speaks with subtlety and grace of a powerful femininity, of the body and its transformations, its wounds and its scars, of a sensitive inner world, flayed and healed. In the preface to her latest book Stigmate, published by Editions Filigranes, Tatyana Franck, Director of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne writes, “In seizing on an old photographic technique conducive to revealing materiality, Emmanuelle Bousquet attempts, perhaps intuitively, to reconcile her body and her mind in a quest to position the self.” Her world is one where everything is on the move, where one searches for the visible and the invisible, the incarnate and the ephemeral. Emmanuelle Bousquet uses the body as an object of research, in order for subject and model each to get closer to the essence of the other. “Being my own model allows me to control each photograph, to be at one with it. It isn’t to show me off nor to represent me, but it’s a means to express what is within me, my body being the actor of my thoughts.”
Emmanuelle Bousquet, Ombres et lumières
Galerie Agathe Gaillard
3 rue du Pont Louis Philippe
75004 Paris
France
