Ghislain Sénéchaut works in the tradition of the observers of the social landscape, topographers of the legendary and the familiar. A photographer and traveler, he loves countries where the remoteness and the harshness of life shape the body and mind. In 2003, his series Portraits du Kosovo revived a memory which had been too quickly forgotten. The elderly, adults and children were there, among the ruins of their villages. The black-and-white prints, the intimate formats and the sober compositions gave a sense of gravity to the aftermath of war, eliciting the viewer’s empathy.
More recently, the exhibition Patagonia showed immense, arid landscapes. Atmospheres, the exhibition currently on display in the gardens of the Musée Albert Kahn, is another invitation to travel. With its large square-format black-and-white photographs, the buildings, people and animals stand out from the green of the garden, like spatiotemporal passages between here and elsewhere.
Michelle Héon, Artist and Professor at the École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image, Poitiers/Angoulême
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Ghislain Sénéchaut
Until June 23rd 2013
Jardins Albert Khan.
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France
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