Six photographers selected by six prominent figures from the photo world are taking part in a search for intimacy—one of the theme’s of this year’s European Month of Photography—at the invitation of gallerist Françoise Paviot.
The journey begins with a ghostly apparition in a white dress. Bogdan Konopka, selected by Michelle Debat, found this dress shortly after the sudden death of his daughter. He places the dress on a cracked walls, in an armoire, in nature, or blurry, hanging from tombstones in a graveyard, before burning it in one final, cathartic image. The work is infinitely moving, theatrical and delicate, an invitation to the imagination.
The young Turkish photographer Irem Sozem presents a constellation of thoughts and feelings rebuilt around a dreamy, sensual self-portrait. Nathalie Gallon, who selected the work, tells us that it takes the form of a “diary of emotions.” Emotions that materialize in bubbles floating among trees, a lifeless body on a forest road, a silhouette bathed in a sea or wide horizons and a landscape of roofs in the mist: the elements of her interior, dreamlike, elegant and unique world.
EXHIBITION
In part of Mois de la Photo 2014
Six personnalités en quête d’intime
Until December 20th, 2014
Galerie Française Paviot
57, rue Sainte-Anne
75002 Paris
France
http://www.paviotfoto.com
