Until March 8, Le Carré de Baudouin presents an exhibition of landscapes by Kate Barry entitled Interstices. It is accompanied by this text:
Everything would have led the photographer Kate Barry to the light, to the glitter, to the easy way out. Within an advantageous family context, she “made” her reputation with prestigious models (stars of the French variety, actresses, famous models). At the beginning of the 2000s, Kate Barry was a recognized portraitist, an accomplished fashion photographer. From 2002 onwards, she worked to go beyond this rigid framework that confined and limited her. The landscape became her new “playground”, her territory of intimate expression, the way in which she could express her sensitivity and her talent.
From her first photographic essays in Brittany in the years 1995-1996, Kate Barry established a photographic writing that was her own: confinement, constraint, stripped-down settings almost in a state of ruin. From 2002, this work unfolded: landscape and ruin, the residual trace of vegetation in an architecture in a state of abandonment, melancholy, heavy atmospheres. From then on, Kate Barry led her career as a commissioned photographer and her personal research around the landscape. But a singular landscape, on a human scale, far from contemplative panorama or complacency.
During her travels, sometimes accompanied by the globetrotting writer Jean Rolin to the four corners of the world (Jordan, the United States, India… Dinard), Kate Barry accumulated landscapes, pieces of road, leaden skies, abandoned architecture, fragile plants finding their way to the light in the heart of concrete, … Marie Darrieussecq will speak of third landscapes.
While the Kate Barry collection has been held by the Nicéphore Niépce Museum since 2021, the Interstices exhibition aims to rediscover Kate Barry’s landscape work, which she seldom exhibited during her lifetime and which the exhibitions “The Habit of Being” (Arles, 2017) and “My Own Space” (Nicéphore Niépce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saône, 2023) only touched on.
Kate Barry et le paysage : Interstices
January 10 – March 8, 2025
Carré de Baudouin
121 rue de Ménilmontant
75020 Paris
www.pavilloncarredebaudouin.fr
