Photography Exhibition Nuit Blanche 2019 : Les fusillés, Johann Soussi

For its 2019 edition, Nuit Blanche presents “Les fusillés” (The shots) by Johann Soussi. The exhibition will be, for one night, in the open air, in sound and light at the Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Square, Place Denfert-Rochereau, in the 14th district of Paris. 29 large-format photographic panels will invest Saturday, October 5 from 8 pm to 7 am the paths of this unusual green space next to the Museum of Liberation, facing the Lion of Belfort. The night-time visitor will set off for a night to discover this transfigured historical parcel to invest it and reinvent it through an immersive photographic path. In partnership with : The City of Paris, The Mission for the Centenary, The Ministry of the Armies, IDN Events, Fotodart, Phi-Link, Exos-Consultants, Mascaret Films and Artistik Rezo.

Here, a soldier runs in the fog, fleeing the enemy. There, a man facing his sad fate awaits his inexorable execution … We could believe in authentic archive footage, clichés that a soldier would have taken in the madness of a terrible battlefield and that would have crossed a century of history. The black and white must not mislead, the realism of the scenes either.

The photographs were taken in the spring of 2014 by photographer Johann Soussi on the shooting of the film Les Fusillés directed by Philippe Triboit (Un Village Français – A French Village -) and produced by Mascaret Films (La Journée de la Jupe – The Day of the Skirt -) as part of the Centenary anniversary of the First World War. The photographer invited himself on the set during the five weeks of filming and captured rare moments between shots. The result is a photographic work with 29 black and white silver images that plunge the visitor into the heart of the Great War and extract moments of poetry to the clash of arms by giving a spectacular or intimate view of the front and backstage scenes. Johann Soussi inscribes his images in a memory work that receives the Centennial label in 2014 and that has been since the the subject, as part of the commemoration of the Great War, of a partnership with the Mission for the Centenary.

More information on : www.johannsoussi.com / https://quefaire.paris.fr/85393/johann-soussi

Practical information

Square Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
Place Denfert-Rochereau • Paris 14
Saturday October 5th from 8pm to 7am
Opening: Saturday, October 5th from 7pm to 8pm
M ° Denfert-Rochereau (lines 4 – 6)
Accessible to people with reduced mobility

Satellite event

Exhibition “Concert” At The Triton
From November 11 To December 7, 2019 – Opening Tuesday November 12
The Triton: 11 Bis, Rue Du Coq French – 93260 Les Lilas (M ° Mairie des Lilas)

Johann Soussi gives through this series a singular look on the musical universe of concerts and on the artists. The clichés were taken between 2014 and 2019 on several scenes, including the mythical Olympia, Bataclan, Zenith and of course the Triton. By following the artists and their teams in concert, Johann Soussi immersed himself in a world that was previously unfamiliar to him. The result is black-and-white photography taken from life that plunges the visitor into the fascinating sight of the stage and the excitement of the backstage, close to the technicians and musicians. In these images the intimate mixes with the spectacular, the photographer moving from the pit to behind the scenes, from the boards of the electric scene to the more felted atmosphere of the dressing rooms.