PARIS PHOTO 2024
MAIN SECTOR
C41 - C43
GROUP SHOW
DAVID DE BEYTER
THOMAS DEVAUX
BÉRANGÈRE FROMONT
JONATHAN SULLAM
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For this 2024 edition, the Bacqueville gallery presents a selection of works by photographers whose aesthetic explores notions of love, disappearance, chaos and beauty.
Where the life of the city is expressed, where loves are embraced and where impulses are satisfied, there are bodies waiting, as if weary, almost sculptural, or gestures posed, delicate... But for how much longer? The breaking point is never far away. It's time for hand-to-hand combat, carcasses aflame and fallen love. Between Bérangère Fromont's documentary and poetic work on the young occupiers of the Place de la République in Paris and invisibilized loves; David De Beyter's anthropological study of stock-car fans in Belgium, whose sport is based on the collision of cars fuelled by fuel until they are totally dispersed, or his study of the 'believers' whose dream territories he has rediscovered ; to the coldly beautiful mirror that Thomas Devaux holds up to us of our consumerist, short-term society; or the figure of the shipwreck and shipwrecked in Jonathan Sullam's neo-romantic images, it's all a question of time and tension. Because everything will disappear...
Image above : David De Beyter, Auto Sculpture V, 2016. Chromogenic print. 122x154cm
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© Thomas Devaux - Courtesy Galerie Bacqueville
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© Bérangère Fromont - Courtesy Galerie Bacqueville
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© Jonathan Sullam - Courtesy Galerie Bacqueville
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MAIN SECTOR - PRISMES
SOLO SHOW
DAVID DE BEYTER
BELIEF DEFECT
Galerie Bacqueville is also pleased to present a solo show by David De Beyter entitled “Belief Defect” in the Prismes sector, featuring a selection of previously unseen works from the “The Skeptics” series.
“The Skeptics” takes us to the geological site of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, where ancient beliefs and rituals are intertwined. Through a combination of photographs, archival images and an immersive video installation with a Drone music soundtrack, the artist recreates the narrative of a contemporary mythology, that of UFOs, the better to deconstruct it.
His practice approaches documentary art or a photographic form of re-enactment, basing his research on a pre-existing amateur discipline: scientific ufology. This pseudo-science (discipline?) dedicated to the study of UFOs brings together the community of “skeptics”. These enthusiasts question the photographic medium, which is inevitably subject to accidents, and sometimes see it as proof of extraterrestrial existence.
When working with images, whether in the darkroom or digitally, David De Beyter dialogues with the ufological archive. He replays its errors and takes up the motifs typical of scientific ufologists' research: dazzling stains, luminous lines or indistinct flying bodies. Each gesture here performatively questions captured reality and the notion of “truth”.
David De Beyter's project “The Skeptics” was shown as part of the Prix Découverte Louis Roederer des Rencontres d'Arles 2019 and as a solo show at Unbound / Unseen 2021 in Amsterdam. “The Skeptics” was also a winner of the Institut pour la photographie’s Research program, which dedicated a solo exhibition to him in 2023, and of the PHMuseum prize in Bologna in September 2024. The artist is currently preparing a book on this series, to be published by RVB Books in January 2025.
Image above : David De Beyter, Magical Place XVII, 2016. Chromogenic print. 2 x 150 x 100 cm
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