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Being and Neon — a photography exhibition by Julie Glassberg | Curated by Marta Russoli.
EXTENDED The exhibition Being and Neon has been extended until Saturday, October 3 Being and Neon Between France, the United States and Japan, Julie Glassberg captures gestures of freedom, resistance and self-assertion. Through dance and life on the road, her photographs reveal the vitality of those reinventing their place in the world. Painting a truck with flamboyant designs, dancing every week despite the passing years, building outlandish bicycles for anarchic jousts: all are ways of reclaiming one’s space and identity. The artist focuses on communities that transform everyday life into a language, and individuals who embrace an object not for what it is in itself, but for what it represents within their worlds. Her photographs portray lives shaped through action, beyond the reach of other people’s judgment, where freedom is lived to the fullest through movement and individual expression. Conceived as an immersive experience, Being and Neon draws visitors into the heart of these singular worlds: sounds, testimonies and sets extend the energy and spirit of the images. The journey begins on the ground floor with STAYIN' ALIVE and its world of tea dances. It continues in the small upstairs room with the raw energy of the BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB, before concluding in the main gallery with the discovery of the spectacular Japanese DEKOTORAS trucks. A photographic and human experience in which every image bears witness to an act of freedom. Curated by: Marta Russoli; Credits: Joanna Starck Julie Glassberg — Artist Julie Glassberg is a French photographer based in Paris. After studying graphic arts, she moved to New York to devote herself fully to her passion: photography. Her work explores cultural diversity, subcultures, underground scenes and figures on the margins of society. During seven years in New York, she regularly collaborated with The New York Times and, from 2011 to 2015, photographed portraits for the weekly Character Study column alongside journalist Corey Kilgannon. Her work has also appeared in numerous international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Le Monde Diplomatique, El País Semanal, Stern View and L’Équipe Mag. She then continued her journey in Asia: first spending a year in Japan, where she developed new projects and collaborations with local artists, followed by a six-month residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai. Upon returning to France, she continued exploring the margins through her documentary projects. Her work has received several awards and grants, including the Lucie Scholarship Emerging Grant, the Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, a POYi Award of Excellence and an International Photography Award. Her first book, Bike Kill, was shortlisted by Paris Photo / Aperture. In 2022, she was selected for the Grande Commande de Photojournalisme led by the BnF with her project Stayin’ Alive. Marta Russoli — Exhibition Curator A graduate in the philosophy of art and sociology from Université Paris-Sorbonne, Marta Russoli explores the connections between images, thought and social dynamics through her curatorial work. Her interest in photography lies in its ability to bring these three dimensions together as a medium that is at once documentary, experimental and conceptual. Currently a curator and coordinator for the Biennale de l’Image Tangible, she champions photographic practices that push the boundaries of the medium through materiality, process and perception. She also curated the exhibition Les Temps des Choses at Galerie Plateforme, examining the relationship between images and temporality through different approaches to photography. She currently works as co-curator of the virtual museum MuseAlps, a European project spanning France and Italy dedicated to promoting and connecting the artistic and cultural heritage of the Alps. Through her projects, she seeks to create spaces for reflection where the image becomes a field for intellectual and sensory experimentation at the intersection of art, philosophy and sociology Exhibition events: Guided tours with the exhibition curator — free admission, no reservation required: Thursday, June 25 — 7:30 p.m. during late-night opening Thursday, July 2 — 7:30 p.m. during late-night opening Saturday, July 4 — 3 p.m. Thursday, July 23 — 7:30 p.m. during late-night opening Saturday, July 25 — 3 p.m. Thursday, August 27 — 7:30 p.m. during late-night opening Saturday, August 29 — 3 p.m. Thursday, September 3 — 7:30 p.m. during late-night opening Thursday, September 17 — 7:30 p.m. during late-night opening Saturday, September 19 — 4 p.m. Guided tours with the Carré de Baudouin cultural mediators — free admission, no reservation required: Saturday, July 11 — 2 p.m. Saturday, July 18 — 2 p.m. Saturday, September 12 — 3 p.m. Saturday, September 26 — 3 p.m. Presentation of the writing workshop led by Victor de Oliveira and the association jeunesse et éducation, in partnership with théâtre de La Colline
Source: paris.fr — photo: Julie Glassberg