Photography Exhibition Emmanuelle Becker — The Work of Time

In L’œuvre du temps (The Work of Time), Emmanuelle Becker presents time as a creative force — simultaneously shaping, and erasing landscapes, our inner lives, and the world as we know it. The book explores the layers of memory and landscape through the singular intertwining of image and word.

With a preface by Patrice Galiana, this 80-pages book (20 x 22 cm) brings together photographs and poems in a continuous dialogue, where text takes on the form of image and image becomes a form of writing.

Fragments, resonances, traces — the book unfolds like an intimate archaeology. Photographs, assembled through montage and collage, converse with brief haiku-like poems, creating a palimpsest that exposes both the delicacy of memory and its endless transformations.

A parallel exhibition

Alongside the book’s publication, an exhibition showcases a selection of prints from the book together with photographic installations conceived as spatial extensions of the work. The exhibition space transforms into a site of sensory immersion, where image, poetry, and materiality enter into dialogue.

Installations

Suspended fragments, collages of stones and bodies, layered images—the installations extend a meditation on memory, caught between erasure and persistence. On the floor, tactile poems unfold like a river of stone and time, a living metaphor of memory’s flow.
Poems, sealed in pouches, emerge among the stones as fragile archives—traces destined to transform or fade. The visitor, through touch, becomes part of this shifting landscape of remembrance.
Nothing is revealed at once: the work takes shape in silence, a layered memory in perpetual flux.

EXHIBITION:

Opening on Saturday, October 4, from 5 pm to 10 pm

Exhibition from October 5 to 19

Open daily, from 12 pm to 8 pm

28, rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi, 75011 Paris

L’œuvre du temps (The Work of Time), with a preface by Patrice Galiana

Printed in 300 copies, including 10 deluxe editions.  49 €

Available on-site during the exhibition and by order:

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