The exhibition Métiers et Savoir-Faire (Professions and Expertise) of the Chambre Noire collective is currently showing at Galerie Négatif+.
Sparks of light bursting from the bottom of a Serbian mine signed by Sladjana Stankovic, RATP mechanic with grease-blackened hands seen by Lily Franey,a taxidermist working to save Paris’s zoo collection captured by François le Diascorn, ayurvedic massages passed down from generation to generation photographed by Hervé Bruhat, assembly of the Ariane V rocket by Christian Avril: the photographers of the Chambre Noire collective explore, through this exhibition, the issues of the professional world from the past forty years.
Breathtaking scientific progress, education for all, and the instant diffusion of information still add to societal worry. One can recall the allegorical scene from the Charlie Chaplin film, Modern Times , where the hero, a victim of Taylorism, tightens the giant gear bolts at a faster and faster pace.
Visionary, the scene contained the seeds of all the themes elaborated on today by our human science researchers: suffering at work, the loss of craftsmanship, the alienation of man by machine, the passing of local to global, the hegemony of multinationals.
Artistes exposés : Christian Avril, Hervé Bruhat, Bruce Clarke, Lily Franey, Jean-Claude Gautrand, Hervé Gloaguen, Fouad Houiche, François Le Diascorn, Francois Lepage, Thierry Nectoux, Sladjana Stankovic et Valérie Winckler.
EXHIBTION
Professions and Expertise (Métiers et savoir-faire)
Exhibition of the Chambre Noire Collective
From 11 to 24 May, 2016
Galerie Négatif+
104 rue Lafayette
75010 Paris
France
Monday – Saturday 10am – 7pm
http://mag.negatifplus.com/expo-le-collectif-chambre-noire-metiers-et-savoir-faire
