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| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Charles Fréger: Wilder Mann, 2010-2011 | | | | | | | 21 May – 25 September 2022 | | | | Over the past twenty years, Charles Fréger has built up a vast collection of portraits, first by focusing on outfits and uniforms, then by exploring masked traditions on every continent. His photographs confront us with secular figures, beings with multiple and ambiguous identities on which our imagination is projected. | | | | | |  | | | | Charles Fréger: Cimarron, 2014-2018 | | | | | | | Four series are brought together in this vast exhibition: "Commedia dell’Arte", produced in Venice and showing the body play of his masked characters; "Yokainoshima", in which the photographer explores the ritual figures of Japan; "Wilder Mann", a photographic campaign carried out over many years in 20 European countries; and "Cimarron", which takes the photographer to Afro-descendant America, from the southern United States to Peru. Embodying strange, comical, sometimes frightening or extravagant animals or creatures, the figures Fréger photographs give a measure of the variety of customs and cultures around the world. By paying attention to the finery and the solemnity of the pose, the artist leaves us alone in front of these masked figures. It is then up to us to imagine the story of each of the characters. | | | | | |  | | | | Charles Fréger: Yokainoshima, 2013-2015 | | | | | | | Charles Fréger (France, 1975) lives and works in Rouen. He studied at the Rouen School of Fine Arts. Since the beginning of the 2000s, he has been pursuing an inventory entitled Portraits photographiques et uniformes, carrying out his series in many countries around the world. In his portraits, the characters wear masks, make-up, costumes, ornaments and accessories to tell the story of their culture, their community and their heritage. Fréger has exhibited in various museums and festivals, and has published numerous books, including Cimarron (2019), Yokainoshima (2016), Bretonnes (2015) and Wilder Mann (2012). He is a founding member of the European and American photographers’ network, Piece of Cake. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Emeric Lhuisset: Ukraine – A Hundred Hidden Faces, Portraits 2022 | | | | | | | 21 May – 25 September 2022 | | | “Some have taken up arms, some are making camouflage nets or Molotov cocktails, others are working on logistics or helping the injured… They are the Ukrainian civil resistance, those who gave up their past life to fight.
These are the people you see in these pictures, these are their hopes, their fears… their faces will remain invisible… for the moment. To protect them while many will certainly be led to continue the struggle in hiding.
But one day these faces will appear to the eyes of all, these faces that I have photographed for later. These faces will appear on the day Ukraine regains its sovereignty. That will be the day when the resistance wins.” | | | | | |  | | | | Emeric Lhuisset: Ukraine – A Hundred Hidden Faces, Portraits 2022 | | | | | | The exhibition brings together one hundred portraits taken in March 2022 by Emeric Lhuisset. If no faces are visible, it is because the people photographed all belong to the Ukrainian civil resistance and are now fighting clandestinely. The series echoes the project Maydan – Hundred Portraits carried out in Kyiv in September 2014. There, Lhuisset took photographs of 100 demonstrators who became revolutionaries on Maydan Square, the famous independence square in the heart of the Ukrainian capital. Lhuisset photographed 100 people there as a tribute to the 100 who died during the Mayan revolution – the large-scale, severely repressed protest movement that led to the overthrow of the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014. This violent revolution, caused by the Ukrainian president’s refusal to sign an association agreement with Europe, was seen by the Russian government as a betrayal of the Ukrainian people. Putin then annexed Crimea and supported pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. The war that had been going on since 2014 escalated on Thursday 24 February 2022, with a massive Russian invasion of the entire Ukraine. On 13 March 2022, Lhuisset returned to Ukraine to take another 100 photographs, this time of Ukrainian resistance fighters. In 2014, the photographer had asked his subjects two questions: “What do you hope will happen next?”, “What do you think will happen?”. Eight years later, Lhuisset asks the same questions to the members of the Ukrainian civil resistance. Their answers are as moving and disturbing as before.
A project realized with the support of Paradox and André Frère Editions. | | | | | |  | | | | Emeric Lhuisset: Ukraine – A Hundred Hidden Faces, Portraits 2022 | | | | | | | Emeric Lhuisset (France, 1983) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm – Centre de géostratégie / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In parallel to his artistic practice, he teaches contemporary art and geopolitics at Sciences Po. Exhibited and collected in many museums, Lhuisset has won various awards, including the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award 2020, the BMW Residency for Photography 2018, and the Grand Prix Images Vevey – Leica Prize 2017. He is the author of four books. His portraits of Ukrainian resistance fighters are published in 2022 by André Frère Editions and Paradox (Ydoc) and follow the book Maydan – Hundred portraits, released by the same publishers in 2014. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Salvatore Vitale: Decompressed Prism, 2022 | | | | | | Online exhibition
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