Parisian photographer Louise Skira has worked primarily in black and white photography since the age of sixteen. In her exhibition TRIPTYQUE, she brings together three series around the theme of movement and travel, a journey from reality to abstraction: Roaming – Lazarus / Stations – Interior Room. 30 argentic photographs, taken between 2004 and 2018 which have a close relationship with the place: the place to which one belongs, the place that one frequents to leave, the real and imaginary place that one discovers while traveling.
Louise Skira was born in 1985 in Paris where she lives and works. Daughter of a painter, artistic practice was quite naturally for her a form of language and expression. It has now been over 18 years since she chose the photographic medium as her form of expression. The photo then allows her to make an image of an interior and imaginative world, which could not have been seen in another way. It is the intermediary between a psychic and intimate world and visual reality.
After a first exhibition in Paris in 2009, she presented the ITINERANCE series, devoted to the 19th arrondissement of Paris at night for the first time to the Spanish public during an exhibition at the young Barcelona gallery Alex Telese. A German tour followed in 2012, with four exhibitions in northern Germany: Dresden, Kiel, Magdeburg and Hanover. Then another in Tallinn (Estonia) and Zaragoza (Spain).
Rich of great success, ITINERANCE will once again be present in Germany alongside the series: CHAMBRE INTERIEURE and LAZARE, a major tour of exhibitions on the theme of travel from February 2015.
PROMÉTHÉE, photographic series on the myth of the cave of Plato, in black and white made in Paris between 2012 and 2013 was also presented at the Barcelona gallery Alex Telese in February 2014 then at Pont l’évêque at the Center Culturel des Dominicaines in France in September 2014.
OPUS was presented to the Brussels public for the first time in 2015 at the Royal Conservatory. And was then presented in Munich, Germany, in October of the same year.
After an exhibition in Paris in February 2018 of the PERPETUO series, Louise Skira presented in April 2019, the series MONSIEUR RODIN as part of the Paris Photo Festival Off. The same year, an exhibition of the TRIPTYQUE series followed in Austria, as part of the Photo Wien festival, then in February 2020, the exhibition in Düsseldorf.
Louise Skira : Triptyque
4 février – 14 mars
Institut français Düsseldorf
Bilker Straße 9
40213 Düsseldorf
https://duesseldorf.institutfrancais.de/?language=de
