POSTPONEMENT OF THE OPENING OF THE HCB FOUNDATION
Contrary to what was previously announced, the HCB Foundation regrets having to postpone the opening of the Marie Bovo – Nocturnes and Martine Franck – Face to face exhibitions to a later date.
Together with the administrative authorities, the HCB Foundation team is doing everything to be able to welcome visitors as quickly as possible in the best sanitary conditions, and will not fail to communicate as soon as this is the case.
François Hébel, Director
It is often at dusk that Marie Bovo is tempted to hold back time. Not only because of the very long pause that the photographic technique chosen requires – large format, argentic, natural light – but also to slowly see this passage of hours unfold in depopulated but inhabited intermediate spaces. The Nocturnes exhibition at the HCB Foundation presents an unprecedented selection of images taken by Marie Bovo at dusk, in Marseille and in Africa.
This approach to time, illustrated by both photography and film, is based on quiet and concerned observation, the politeness of the gaze, the appropriation of an imaginary interior from the outside. Marie Bovo happily moved from photography to the moving image and her images, systematically presented in series to emphasize the passage of time, are on the verge of cinema. The visual quality and the very controlled plasticity of her works do not at first suggest the almost humanist spirit which underlies them.
The border of the intimate without invasion, the inhabitants, at night, are common things with Marie Bovo who intends by this to resist the aggression of the hunter objective and to flow in rhythm in the flux of life, in all discretion .
“Photographing at night involves the use of long pause, and one of the special features of long pauses is adding time to the measurement of light.” Marie Bovo
The exhibition at the HCB Foundation presents 35 large format prints from 5 different series as well as 2 films. It is produced in collaboration with the gallery kamel mennour.
Born in 1967 in Alicante, Spain, Marie Bovo lives and works in Marseille. She is represented by the gallery kamel mennour in Paris. Marie Bovo was nominated for the Infinity Awards by the International Center of Photography in New York in 2016.
Her work has been the subject of numerous personal exhibitions in France, notably at the Rencontres d’Arles, at the Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris, at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, at the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in Marseille and at the Fernet-Branca Foundation in Saint-Louis. She has also had exhibitions abroad – at the OSL Contemporary Gallery in Norway, the California Museum of Photography and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. These exhibitions have given rise to several works.
Her works have also been presented in group exhibitions, notably at the Venice Biennale in 2011, the Busan Biennale in South Korea in 2012, the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki in 2013 and the Milan Triennale in 2014. Recently, she participated in the 29th edition of the Roesler Hotel in Sao Paulo in 2019.
Agnès Sire, Artistic Director
Marie Bovo: Nocturnes
May 26-July 26, 2020
Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
79 rue des archives
75003 paris
Tuesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
https://www.henricartierbresson.org/
PUBLICATION
The exhibition is accompanied by a work entitled Nocturnes, published by Atelier EXB / Textes by Agnès Sire and Alain Bergala
Xavier Barral editions.
Hardcover
21 x 25.6 cm
80 photographs, 160 pages
ISBN 978-2-36511-255-0
€ 42
