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Académie des beaux-arts

FLORE

Maison Auguste Comte

Closed

Irish Cultural Center

Alan Phelan

Paris Czech Center

Closed

Italian Cultural Center

Closed

Galerie Arenthon

Benjamin Travade

Galerie Berthet-Aittouares

John Craven

Galerie Chenel

François Halard

Galerie Catherine & André Hug

Galerie Daniel Blau / Galerie Meyer

Joseph Glover - Maite de Orbe - Lucile Soussan

Galerie Eric Mouchet

Jacques Blin & Bertrand Hugues

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

Pilar Albarracín - Julien Berthier - Alain Bublex

Galerie Gimpel & Müller

Gundi Falk and Pierre Cordier

Galerie La Forest Divonne

Elsa & Johanna - Jérôme Bryon - Lucien Hervé

Galerie l'inlassable

Caroline Corbasson and Andrea Montano

Galerie Madé

Lucile Boiron

Galerie Olivier Waltman

Aleix Plademunt

Galerie Patrice Trigano

Lucien Clergue, Monika Czosnowska, Françoise Huguier, Marie Jo Lafontaine

Galerie Roger Viollet

Les icônes de l’agence Roger-Viollet

Rubis Mécénat hors-les-murs

Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Cyprien Clément-Delmas

Lusted Men Project Space

N°	Location	Artist	Type	District
1	Académie des beaux-arts	FLORE	Institution	75006
2	Maison Auguste Comte	Closed	Institution	75006
3	Irish Cultural Center	Alan Phelan	Centre Culturel	75005
4	Paris Czech Center	Closed	Centre Culturel	75006
5	Italian Cultural Center	Closed	Centre Culturel	75007
6	Galerie Arenthon	Benjamin Travade	Galerie	75006
7	Galerie Berthet-Aittouares	John Craven	Galerie	75006
8	Galerie Chenel	François Halard	Galerie	75007
9	Galerie Catherine & André Hug	Terri Loewenthal	Galerie	75006
10	Galerie du Crous	Massao Mascaro	Galerie	75006
11	Galerie du Crous	Jonathan LLense	Galerie	75006
12	Galerie Daniel Blau / Galerie Meyer	Joseph Glover - Maite de Orbe - Lucile Soussan	Galerie	75006
13	Galerie Eric Mouchet	Jacques Blin & Bertrand Hugues	Galerie	75006
14	Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois	Pilar Albarracín - Julien Berthier - Alain Bublex	Galerie
15	Galerie Gimpel & Müller	Gundi Falk and Pierre Cordier	Galerie	75006
16	Galerie La Forest Divonne	Elsa & Johanna - Jérôme Bryon - Lucien Hervé	Galerie	75006
17	Galerie l'inlassable	Caroline Corbasson and Andrea Montano	Galerie	75006
18	Galerie Madé	Lucile Boiron	Galerie	75006
19	Galerie Olivier Waltman	Aleix Plademunt	Galerie	75006
20	Galerie Patrice Trigano	Lucien Clergue, Monika Czosnowska, Françoise Huguier, Marie Jo Lafontaine	Galerie	75006
21	Galerie Roger Viollet	Les icônes de l’agence Roger-Viollet	Galerie
22	Rubis Mécénat hors-les-murs	Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Cyprien Clément-Delmas	Autre	75006
23	Lusted Men Project Space	Lusted Men	Autre	75007
24	SEPTIEME Gallery	Andrew Tshabangu	Galerie	75007
25	DELPIRE & CO	—	Librairie	75006
26	Librairie des Alpes	Guy Le Querrec	Librairie	75006
27	Port de Solférino	Feng Li	Autre	75006

Galerie La Forest Divonne

DATES ! From November 11th.

Elsa & Johanna, The sunnyside, «Beyond The Shadows», impression jet d’encre semi-mat sur papier baryté, 60 x 90 cm, 2018 © courtesy Galerie La Forest Divonne

Elsa & Johanna, Playground, «Beyond The Shadows», impression jet d’encre semi-mat sur papier baryté, 60 x 90 cm, 2018 © courtesy Galerie La Forest Divonne

Lucien Hervé, Vue de l’Eglise de Saint-Sévérin, tirage argentique moderne signé, 25 x 33,5 cm, 1948. © courtesy Galerie La Forest Divonne

Lucien Hervé, PSQF (Paris Sans Quitter ma Fenêtre), tirage argentique moderne signé, 26,5 x 33,5 cm, 1947-1949 © courtesy Galerie La Forest Divonne

Jérôme Bryon, Cyprès 01, «Grand sud», Impression pigmentaire sur papier Hahnemülhe, 120 x 150 cm, 2013
© courtesy Galerie La Forest Divonne

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Elsa & Johanna - Jérôme Bryon - Lucien Hervé

Per Se

The exhibition brings together the work of three artists stimulated in their creations by constraint and isolation. Three artists from three different generations and different perspectives, from humanist photography to conceptual photography.

In 2018, Elsa & Johanna seek isolation in the city of Calgary, Canada. By photographing themselves in obsolete interiors, they capture the atmosphere of a border territory "without history", of suburban areas surrounded by the immensity of nature. The chosen photographs analyse and question a sense of loneliness and confinement. The two characters take us behind them in their expectations and dreams, on the borders of reality and fiction.

In 2008, Jérôme Bryon approaches the subject literally, by voluntarily shutting himself up in some hotel room. He thus creates a series of very strong images by simply using what he finds in the rooms: a bed, a bed base... The use of strong constraints of place and the attention to unattractive subjects irrigates Bryon's work, the images that he draws from them become a journey.

Several decades earlier, in 1947, the master of photography Lucien Hervé produced a series of photographs that went down in history under the name "P.S.Q.F". In "Paris Sans Quitter ma Fenêtre", Hervé captures everyday scenes from his flat: a single, constrained and unique point of view. The result is formidably dynamic thanks to the variety of angles and Lucien Hervé's ability to play on the details as well as on the compositions as a whole.

The constraints within which these three artists confine their lenses testify to the power of photography to transform reality, to initiate an immobile journey, and to trigger the imagination of the beholder. These three individual experiences of artistic confinement form a set of strong, poetic and touching images.

Galerie La Forest Divonne
Founded in 1988 by Marie-Hélène de La Forest Divonne, Galerie Vieille du Temps became Galerie La Forest Divonne in 2015, upon moving in new walls, rue des Beaux Arts. She opened a second space in Brussels in 2016, run by her son Jean de Malherbe. Two generations of gallerists build up an independent line of international artists, putting quality and timelessness as first criteria of their choices.