7th Hotel Photo Award, Photo d’Auteur (phpA)
Thursday, September 5 to Monday, November 4, 2013
THE PROJECT
Since 2005, the “Hôtels Paris Rive Gauche” label has initiated the “Photo d’Hôtel, Photo d’Auteur” artistic project to support contemporary photography.
The concept of the project is simple: every month, a young photographer is invited to spend a night in one of the Paris Rive Gauche hotels, and to create a unique photograph and text inspired by his or her stay. The selected photograph, the text and a presentation of the artist are then exhibited on the Paris Rive Gauche Hotels online gallery (www.phpa.fr).
The artists compete for a prize of €3,000 and for the hotel staff’s favorite, the Prix Virginie Clément. The 12 photographs of the year are also exhibited in a prestigious venue, for the past three years at the Galerie esther Woerdehoff.
The PHPA Award and exhibition were created in 2007.
THE VERNISSAGE
A private tour followed by an invitation-only cocktail reception will take place on Thursday, September 5, 2013 from 3pm to 11pm.
The announcement and award ceremony will take place at 7:30pm.
The exhibition will take over both the interior and exterior of the gallery. In addition to photos by the 12 photographers competing for the PHPA prize, Ursula Kraft’s Carte Blanche will feature 11 previously unseen photos.
CARTE BLANCHE 2013: URSULA KRAFT
Each year, Alain Bisotti, the event’s artistic director, entrusts an artist with an original, non-competitive carte blanche, which is unveiled on the evening of the opening. This year, Alain Bisotti has chosen the dreamlike work of German photographer ursula Kraft.
Ursula Kratf pays a double tribute to the worlds of Lewis Carroll and Wim Wenders with :
“Alice in the hotels
Alice scratches her signature and builds her nest. She goes through the looking glass and enters a chimerical world.
Strange creatures – the girl with wings, the butterfly nymph and other fabulous beings – wake up at night and take her to dreamlike worlds between light and dark. Alice transgresses herself between man and animal, between her tall and short stature, between the mysterious Black and the innocent White.
She meets Hitchcock’s birds and makes Meret Oppenheim’s mug dream. Instead of following the story, and playing croquet with a pink flamingo, she goes to bed with a white swan, graceful as La Belle Juliette. Black swan – white swan. As in fairy tales… opposite sisters… and when one shakes the cushions, as in Dame Hiver, it snows on the ground. The other turns as black as pitch, black feathers sticking to her skin, like a crow.
To escape this nightmare, she wears a white feather cape, like Peau d’âne. She dashes down the stairs, leaving feathers in her wake, leaves the hotel, and finds herself – in reality.
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