In keeping with its curatorial focus dedicated to contemporary photography, Galerie Parallax presents Essentia, an exploration of what remains when the image strips itself bare.
Essentia
Here, light does not describe — it reveals.
Subjects become architecture,
matter becomes language,
silence becomes tension.
Between memory and presence,
Essentia questions the essential:
what remains when everything superfluous disappears. Essentia.
From the physicality of Steffen Diemer’s works, combined with their intimate scale, to the fragile and subtle plant constructions of Bertrand Hugues, the viewer can only immerse themselves intensely in each image… and brush against Essentia.
Essentia
Steffen Diemer et Bertrand Hugues
from April 25 to June 20, 2026
Galerie Parallax
3 rue des Epinaux
13100 Aix en Provence
www.galerieparallax.fr
