The Esperar project, in Portuguese: to wish, to wait…
In a chaotic evolution made of comings and goings, from Lisbon to Odessa, by way of Tangiers, Marseille or Istanbul, we find ourselves between two (shores), in suspension.
The photographs express a feeling of waiting: waiting for something else, a departure, an arrival, a mystery to solve, waiting for nothing. In their own way, they remind me of Fernando Pessoa (Ode Maritime, 1914).
“The “passage” – characterizes the work… Slowly, I pass, I stop, time passes, it stops, distances pass, ghosts pass”
The technical choice – film, black and white, made on a Leica M6 (often 35mm) – far from having exhausted all of its power of expression and creativity, is in coherence with the objectives of a photography aimed at capturing movement and slowness.”
Gerald Assouline
“Gerald Assouline is an independent photographer and sociologist, based in the region of Grenoble (France). In parallel to his long-term personal works, such as Esperar, he is a photographer engaged in social reality, leading an activity of conceiving and organizing educational and creative photography and video workshops, aimed at more “vulnerable” audiences in order to build the desire and capability of expressing themselves through images.”
Gerald Assouline, Esperar…
September 7 – Octobre 2, 2011
La Pinacothèque
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1201 Genève (Suisse)
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