This coming May, to celebrate its 7th anniversary in Hendaye, L’ANGLE welcomes photographer Dolorès Marat and her exhibition The Walking Tree.
“Dolorès Marat practices a distinctive form of photography, true to herself, favoring simplicity, instinct, and spontaneity. Her shots, captured without cropping, reveal a raw reality, often nocturnal, where her two key ingredients—muted colors and enigmatic blurs—invite a dreamlike exploration.
Each photograph becomes a visual tale, a dive into the unconscious that, in some ways, evokes the cinematic world of David Lynch. The photographer transforms everyday life into surreal scenes, where dream and reality blend together.
Her works, like The Walking Tree, The Woman with Gloves, or The Cowboy in the Cinema, reflect this ability to seize the moment and reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary.
In this photographic journey that transcends the visible, Dolorès Marat unveils, through a subtle connection with her subjects, what she intimately perceives: their vulnerability, their sensitivity to the world, and their deep solitude.
Her art, imbued with visceral empathy, is tinged with mystery and poetry—it captivates and enchants, offering a rich, introspective, and liberating visual experience.”
— Didier Mandart, founder and director of L’ANGLE
“Whether in the desert or in the subway, in New York, Paris or Los Angeles, in Palmyra or Les Mureaux, her unique vision transforms, transposes, becomes her own—dreamlike, in color, and out of time. I think of outsider art and of this quote from Georges Braque: ‘Art is a wound that becomes light.’”
— Sarah Moon, May 2024
“The viewer is on cloud nine, reaching the marvelous through her images—each one a small miracle, an invitation to dream, a moment of grace.”
— Magali Jauffret / Dolorès, sensitive surface of her photography / Editions Delpire & Co – 2024
“A master of color, this ‘great lady of French photography’, intimately familiar with the Fresson printing technique, is a lover of the night and chromatic disorder.”
— Eric Reinhardt, Photo Poche, Actes-Sud, 2023
The Exhibition – The Walking Tree
The exhibition The Walking Tree brings together at L’ANGLE more than 40 iconic prints of Dolorès Marat’s work: images of landscapes, cities, anonymous figures, animals, funfairs, zoos, subway stations… captured on film over several years in France, across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.
The prints, signed by the artist and numbered in editions of 10, are made by Sunghee Lee at the SHL workshop in Arles (13):
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Format 30×53 cm on Awagami Bizan White 300g Japanese paper
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Format 60×90 cm on Arches BFK White 310g paper
The print sale exhibition at L’ANGLE is accompanied by a display of her published works:
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Lune rouge et autres animaux familiers / Éditions Fario – 2021
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Photo Poche No. 172 / Éditions Actes-Sud – 2023
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Dolorès Marat – Monograph / Editions Delpire & Co – 2024
Dolorès Marat
Born in 1944, Dolorès Marat lives in Avignon. A self-taught photographer, she began as an apprentice to Claude Froissard, a neighborhood photographer, before working as a lab technician and photographer for Votre Beauté magazine. She began developing her personal body of work at nearly 40. Her discovery of the Fresson process in 1983 marked a turning point in her artistic journey. Since then, her work has been regularly featured in the press (Le Monde Diplomatique, Libération, Les Inrockuptibles, etc.).
She has published numerous monographs, most now out of print: Rives, Marval, 1995; New York USA, Marval, 2002; Illusion, Filigrane, 2003; Mezzo Voce, Fario, 2021. She also appears in the prestigious Photo Poche collection from Actes-Sud. In 2020, she donated over 200 prints to the MAP – Médiathèque de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine. Her work has been exhibited internationally, notably in New York and South Korea, and was highly acclaimed at the 2023 Rencontres d’Arles as well as during her first major institutional solo exhibition in Paris, at the Sozzani Foundation in November 2024. That same year, she received the inaugural Robert Delpire Book Prize for her distinctive photographic vision—described as an instinctive and authentic representation of the world.
Exhibition The Walking Tree, by Dolorès Marat
May 2 to June 8, 2025
Special screening of the documentary Dolorès by Thomas Goupille / The Darkroom Rumour,
in the presence of the photographer
Friday, May 2 at 6:30 PM at Getari Enea Cinema in Guéthary (64).
Exhibition opening with Dolorès Marat
Saturday, May 3 starting at 5 PM at L’ANGLE in Hendaye (64).
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Opening Hours
From Thursday to Saturday: 11h/13h – 16h/19h
On Sunday: 11h/13h
And on appointment +33 6 80 06 28 57
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Galerie L'Angle
6, rue des Citronniers 64700 Hendaye
May 02, 2025 to June 08, 2025
