⚠️ The date displayed at the top of this event comes from the official source. The original description mentions other dates that may be obsolete.
Two exhibitions between photographic obsession and a dreamlike journey.
Photography, Exhibition Daido Moriyama - Love Letters to Photography For Daido Moriyama, photography is alive, very much alive. Since the early 1960s, he has maintained an almost existential daily relationship with this way of recording the world, constantly addressing it through projects, images, or texts that each time amount to declarations. In 1972, his book Shasin yo sayonara — Farewell Photography — deconstructed the accepted rules of good photographic practice. Around the same time, he regularly published photographic essays in the Japanese specialist press, each one a kind of manifesto. He also made repeated pilgrimages in the footsteps of the very first photographer, the Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce. Many of his images, taken day by day, form mise en abyme-like reflections on the medium. They hold up a mirror to it. The exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is not a traditional retrospective with a chronological sequence of masterpieces. It is based on a clearly defined curatorial approach: following the thread of Moriyama’s obsession with photography itself. Nuits Balnéaires – Eboro Eboro refers, in the metaphysical thought of the Agni-Bona peoples of Côte d'Ivoire, to the liminal zone, the border and intimate passage of the soul, as well as the place of origin of humanity. At the end of his earthly existence, a person’s immaterial double returns to Eboro to join his ancestors, to whom he must give an account of his life on earth. This project introduces an autobiographical dimension into the work of Nuits Balnéaires. It begins in Dakar, Senegal: on July 22, 1986, his uncle Noël X. Ebony, a renowned journalist and playwright, disappeared under enigmatic circumstances. In Agni-Bona tradition, the nephew plays a key role in accompanying the uncle on his passage to the afterlife. For Nuits Balnéaires, this took the form of an exploration of how earlier trajectories — historical or familial — influence or predetermine our own paths through life. Nuits Balnéaires conceived Eboro intuitively, allowing the emotional power of places and family memory to shape the interconnected visual chapters of this many-layered work. He welcomes the melancholy and trauma linked to his uncle’s story with gentleness and hope, questioning how imagination can help heal transgenerational wounds. Nuits Balnéaires is the second laureate of Latitudes, a program of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Curatorship: Nuits Balnéaires: David Campany / Moriyama: Clément Chéroux.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Daido Moriyama