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Passing through eras, with a hard core of historic galleries, Paris Photo offers a very broad spectrum of the history of the medium and leaves plenty of room for discovery.
Highlights from Paris Photo 2023
"Passing through eras, with a hard core of historic galleries, Paris Photo offers a very broad spectrum of the history of the medium and leaves plenty of room for discovery."
Anna Planas, Artistic Director of Paris Photo
PARIS-B | Baptiste Rabichon | Dune Varela | Yang Yongliang | Kechun Zhang
Playing with the interweaving of time and eras, Dune Valera works with the image as a ruin, a vestige caught in the movement of speculative archaeology. Baptiste Rabichon composes his photographs like a painter. A sheet of coloured RC paper is his blank canvas, a territory for experimenting with his composition processes, combining analogue photography, digital images, and projections of various objects from his daily life. Yang Yongliang questions people’s economic, environmental, and social problems, anticipating the devastating effects of rampant urbanisation and industrialisation in China and elsewhere. By capturing the process of lifting and planting trees and rocks in different locations, Zhang Kechun documents the transformation of urban spaces and the efforts made to create green areas within the city.
STIEGLITZ19 | Ren Hang | Zhipeng Lin | Pixy Liao | Marie Tomanova
Portrait is one of the most challenging art forms in painting, but certainly even more so in photography. Only a few artists venture into it, and in this case they are 4 artists who, without training, are among the most challenging photographers of the moment. When it comes to the constructed portraits of Ren Hang, the snapshots of 223, the stagings of Pixy Liao or portraits of unknown people in the streets of New York. Each of these artists have pushed the boundaries in portrait photography
UP | Ronghui Chen
UP presents An Ordinary Evening in New Haven by its artist Chen Ronghui. Chen shot this series while studying for his MFA degree at Yale in New Haven from 2019 to 2021. Born and raised locally in China, Chen was suddenly thrust into an area where nighttime crime cases were high and the Covid 19 pandemic was looming. After a long day at school, the light of night would seep through his windows where he would lie and observe, enjoying its beauty interlaced with eeriness and fear, creating part one of the series. By then Chen started to receive e-mails from his school, and part two slowly took form as streaks of artificial light, signifying actual crime scenes flooded into his living space. These artificial scenes Chen located through Google Maps found their way as a portrayal of omnipresent fear creeping into his daily life. Stepping on a journey between light and shadow, this series is Chen’s gaze in a Western country at a peculiar time.
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Paris Photo
09-12 November 2023
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris (France)
www.parisphoto.com
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