For the festival, Galerie Arenthon has chosen to present works by Olivier Debré and Zao Wou-Ki in dialogue with those of photographer Julie Laporte.
Debré's Signs dialogue harmoniously with the aerial, oracular ghosts of his Chinese contemporary. The works selected highlight the contrast between the floating, colorful lightness of Zao Wou-Ki's etchings and the deep anchorage of Olivier Debré's black forms. What these two approaches to engraving have in common is the liberation of the intuitive gesture, a fundamental act of the lyrical abstraction movement.
After completing a Master's degree in photography at the Université Paris VIII, where she explored the notion of the fold, Julie Laporte began her career as a printer-filterer in 2016. Fascinated by the photographic material she sculpts and experiments with on a daily basis, it is between color theory and analog manipulations that she draws the foundations of her plastic work.
This fertile source of experience constantly challenges her understanding of images, and her workplace becomes a privileged playground for creation. Gleaning from laboratory waste, her approach questions the future of photographic material. Recovering these analogue elements, Julie composes collages and volumes that she pins or arranges in space to reveal what has been made to disappear.
« “Celeste” is a series that looks at the material that makes up the image, and more broadly at what composes us and the universe. By extracting fragments of textures that evoke landscapes or organic cells, I seek to penetrate a form of fractal maze, where each detail opens up a new dimension of contemplation.»
Julie Laporte
Galerie Arenthon
While specializing in modern engravings, lithographs and rare books, Galerie Arenthon highlights photography of the twentieth and twenty-first century for its participation in PhotoSaintGermain. In this way, the gallery demonstrates the link between photography and the multiples and other works on paper.