The MAGNIN-A gallery presents until July 31, 2020, Nathalie Boutté‘s first solo exhibition in France.
For this exhibition called Way Down South, Nathalie Boutté revisits the portraits of African Americans from the photographic archives of Rufus W. Holsinger.
Rufus W. Holsinger, a white American photographer who settled in Virginia in the United States in 1880, has, during his career, taken numerous portraits, photographing indistinctly, black and white women and men.
For this new series of works, the imagination of Nathalie Boutté mix words printed on books, words of songs, titles of works, parts of her memory, the memory of those whose portrait she uses or of those who used these materials before her and whom she appropriates.
It documents an era and plays with temporalities, the past is a daily presence and a source of inspiration.
Projected into our reality, these works thus collected can serve as a counter-narrative to the historical reality of segregation. In front of Rufus W. Holsinger’s lens, white and black are equal.
Under Nathalie Boutté’s fingers, their skin color no longer appears as a constitutive element of their social position. Only their gaze and their presence dominate.
Nathalie Boutté : Way Down South
Until July 31, 2020
MAGNIN-A
118, Boulevard Richard Lenoir
75011 Paris
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