DENIZ DEMIRER
BRODBECK & DE BARBUAT
UNE HISTOIRE PARALLÈLE : PHOTOGRAPHIE & IA
Du 18 décembre 2023 au 20 janvier 2024
Assistant curator, art project coordinator at Sorbonne Artgallery
In "Une Histoire parallèle", Brodbeck & de Barbuat propose a corpus of images that recreate a history of photography invented through a machine-learning program that generates images from textual data. This project examines the emergence of creative tools using artificial intelligence and their impact on Photography and its ability to make History, underlining the need to perpetually rethink our relationship with images and new technologies.
VÉRONIQUE ELLENA
LE CIEL, LA TERRE, ET TOUT CE QU'ILS RENFERMENT
Du 9 novembre au 11 décembre 2023
Assistant curator, art project coordinator at Sorbonne Artgallery
For Sorbonne Artgallery, as part of Photo Days 2023, Véronique Ellena offers a never-before-seen vision of Strasbourg Cathedral's Millennium Stained Glass Window, which she created in 2015, following a commission from the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Grand-Est. This work was created in close collaboration with master glassmaker Pierre-Alain Parot, who passed away this year.
In this exhibition, the artist presents a series of colorful, mysterious images never before seen. The photographs presented at Galerie Soufflot are the result of a patient process of image creation, collection and composition. The nature photographs have been the subject of numerous shooting campaigns: in Strasbourg, in the Drome or in the Ain, and even in Rome at the Villa Medici, they are the result of research and observation.
LÉONARD PONGO
PRIMORDIAL EARTH
Du 26 septembre au 4 novembre 2023
Assistant curator, art project coordinator at Sorbonne Artgallery
Primordial Earth explores the diversity of landscapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Artist Léonard Pongo offers us an allegorical imagery of the country. Imbued with a sense of magical beauty and mystical power, the landscape becomes through his eyes a place of self-reconstruction, and the earth the origin of a consciousness from which tradition, philosophy and conceptions of the universe emerge. For him, it's from wandering through the environment and sensory experience that a vision of the world emerges, and it's by becoming one with the landscape that it's possible to envisage life.
Drawing on Congolese traditions and Kasai cultures, Primordial Earth presents the landscape as a character with a will and power of its own. This photographic series functions as an open book that tells a certain story of humanity and the planet, centered in the Congo.