« If photography is the writing of light, then Linda Tuloup writes. Her works manipulate light as others do ink; her Polaroids shine and burn, sparkle, reminding us that sparks are needed to see, embers to love, and embers to suffer. The 'outrenoir' is still light. Darkness is always a pyre. In black and white or in color, in small or large format, Linda Tuloup, who lives in the City of Light, writes incessantly, therefore.
Bruised surfaces, wrinkled skins, blackened lights: the Galerie Olivier Waltman presents a journey through fire, fires, populated with incandescent bodies and phantom limbs, epiphanies and apertures. This journey is the metabolization of a book that, published by André Frère, blazes. I had the joy of being invited by Linda Tuloup to contribute some phrases. Fire against fire. Without counterfire.
The Galerie Olivier Waltman exhibition, by welcoming Linda Tuloup’s writing of light, unfolds like a sovereign book and consecrates a major artist, vestal of the inner fire—the true fire. »
Colin Lemoine, writer and art historian
Galerie Olivier Waltman
Since 2005, we have been promoting the work of artists from different regions of the world, both emerging and confirmed. Their artistic practices touch on painting, photography, sculpture, design as well as electronic arts. We are committed to developing for them a platform for demonstrating and visibility in our spaces in Paris and Miami as well as at several international contemporary art fairs. Meetings and dialogue are at the heart of our mission. An artist residency in Miami, set up in 2019, is part of this desire to encourage exchanges and support contemporary creation.
The gallery is a member of Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art (France) and the Miami Art Dealers Association (USA). Olivier Waltman is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP).