The Château d’Eau in Toulouse is presenting an exhibition attempting, for the first time, to trace the line of tension connecting the different sets of photographs created by Olivia Gay. Whether it be factory women with a rare expertise or cashiers at a supermarket, struggling women housed by social services or prisoners, prostitutes in their daily lives or nuns in their convent, from the start, Olivia Gay focused her attention on women working or living in a context that tend to alter the visibility of a person. Although coming from reporting, she favors patience and dialogue in her work to create images attempting to give back to these women their dignity. Imbued with pictorial culture, these works are a way for the artist to weave links between her and the models, but also between the models and the viewers. It is how these photographs take on their full political potential.
Nathalie Giraudeau
Nathalie Giraudeau is an author specialized in photography and is the director of the CPI.
Olivia Gay, Résistantes
From May 4 through June 5, 2017
Galerie du Château D’eau
1 Place Laganne
31300 Toulouse
France
