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Exhibition view, La photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction, at the CPIF - Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France. © All rights reserved to the artists. © Photo: Aurélien Mole. -
with Marina GADONNEIX, Isabelle LE MINH and Hannah WHITAKER.
In partnership with the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (Frac) Normandie Rouen and Micro Onde - Centre d’Art de l’Onde, the Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France (CPIF) has produced an exceptional three-exhibition programme that will be presented simultaneously in the three venues. This collective exhibition focuses on the question of abstraction in the field of contemporary photography.
La Photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction invites visitors to explore the strong new ties between photography and abstraction. The exhibition’s four complementary sections address this flourishing current of abstraction, which informs a multitude of approaches and which is closely linked to the evolving status of the image and the rapid rise of new technologies since the 80s.
The CPIF has opted for a formalist approach that uses color to immerse visitors in the exhibition.
The exhibition at Micro Onde - Centre d’art de l’Onde focuses on a resolutely experimental and materials-based approach to photography.
Frac Normandie Rouen explores three aspects with a first section that considers an almost archaeological approach to photography. Conversely, the second section brings together artists whose quest for abstraction is above all dependent on technological process that can be complex in nature.
Curators :
Nathalie Giraudeau, Director of the CPIF
Audrey Illouz, Responsable of the Onde - Centre d’art de l’Onde
Véronique Souben, Director of the Frac Normandie Rouen
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Exhibition view, La photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction, at the FRAC Normandie Rouen. © All rights reserved to the artists. © Photo: Marc Domage.
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Exhibition view, La photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction, at the Onde, Theater - Art Center. © All rights reserved to the artists. © Photo: Aurélien Mole.
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Booth of Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris Photo, 2017. © Photo: Rebecca Fanuele.
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Isabelle Le Minh is a French artist born in Bad Salzuflen-Schötmar (DE) in 1965.
She lives and works in Nogent-sur-Marne (FR).
After working as a patent engineer in Berlin, ILM found her way to photography. Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles in 1996, Isabelle Le Minh is also curator and professor of photography at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Winner of the Prix Révélation livre d'artiste of the ADAGP in 2016, she notably has exhibited on the occasion of the Mois de la photo in Montréal, the Goethe Institut, Paris, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Paris Photo, the Centre photographique d'île de France, La Maison Rouge, the FRAC Normandie Rouen, the Musée des beaux arts de Mulhouse, and the MOCAK in Krakow. From the end of 2019 until March 2020, Isabelle Le Minh has exhibited at the CRP - Centre régional de la photographie hauts-de-france as well.
Her work on the Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984) 's work, a notable representative of the German photographic avant-garde, presented as part of the exhibition Cristal Réel at the Goethe Institute in Paris, will be exhibited at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung Berlin in 2020. That same year ILM's work After Photography will be shown at the Grand Palais as part of the exhibition Noir et Blanc: une esthétique de la photographie.
Isabelle Le Minh explores the essence and limits of photography, reactivating its history, techniques and theories. Through a protéiforme and polysemic work, she questions the nature of the medium but also the notion of originality in a world dominated by the image.
Using citation or diversion, her works play with words, signs and cultural codes, in a resolutely conceptual vein. Tributes and references to artists and art theorists, chemical processes, photographic equipment and new technological supports are all milestones that punctuate this photographic exploration. -
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Born in 1980 in Washington D.C (US), Hannah Whitaker is based in New York.
Interested in structural limitations, she makes photographs by layering exposures onto 4×5 film through hand-cut paper screens. This accumulation of coded imagery allows the photographs to participate in various systems (linguistic, numerical, musical, and digital) and to form networks through shared vocabularies of signs. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the ICP/Bard College. Selected exhibitions include those at M+B, Los Angeles, Thierry Goldberg, New York; Galerie Xippas, Paris; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco; Tokyo Institute of Photography; Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; and Rencontres d'Arles in France, where she was nominated for the Discovery Prize. Her work was recently selected for inclusion in the prestigious photography exhibition Foam Talent (2014) (traveling, Amsterdam, Paris and Dubai). She co-edited issue 45 of Blind Spot magazine and co-curated its accompanying show, The Crystal Chain, at Invisible Exports in New York. Selected press includes Frieze, Modern Painters, Los Angeles Times, Hotshoe, Libération, and Art Review, artpress, IMA, among others. Peer to Peer, Whitaker's first monograph, was published by Mörel Books. -
La photographie à l'épreuve de l'abstraction
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