Elevador Santa Junta Lisbonne
There are two Lisboas: the one we see and the one we feel. Sylvie Dupic places her lens between the two, but delivers a pure emotion: her Lisbon made of places, colors, sensations, her saudade. For this exhibition, few faces appear, only the city and its symbols count, as if it were sufficient in itself. Lisbon and its monuments, its little streets, its cabs, its history….
Sylvie Dupic says of herself: “I fell, already as a child, in a black and white photo lab! All my senses, except taste, were captivated by photographic development.”
Photographer in Paris for the last fifteen years, Sylvie started as a stage photographer (concert, dance, theater), working in black and white. She likes to reveal the emotions of faces and gestures, on the street corner or at the end of the world. From Paris to Africa, through different European countries, Sylvie offers us sensitive and intense portraits. It is from 1997 that she discovers Africa through countries such as Niger, Mali, Madagascar, Togo and Burkina-Faso. She made many reports on the theme of childhood and youth. At the same time, she does a lot of event reporting and works on personal and illustration subjects…
For this exhibition, Sylvie shows us Lisbon from the inside and offers us memories of key moments that build a love story started ten years ago.
The photographer looks back on two years of travels, of rediscovering her family, in places that are so well known but that we see each time in a different way. Like an eternal invitation to travel, many of the cab photos take me back to my own adventures as a tourist in a cab in Lisbon but give the impression of a city in movement, alive and colorful.
She chooses impressive angles like this view of the Cristo Rei in the middle of the 25th of April Bridge and offers us beautiful perspectives, from the Tower of Belem to the Monastery dos Jerónimos but little black and white.
She tells us about places that have disappeared, such as the ruins near the Saint George Castle, a beautiful example of Portuguese street art.
Welcomed by a fish reminiscent of the city’s Mediterranean influences, the journey begins on an express passage through some of the city’s symbols. We are quickly caught by a magnificent perspective like the one of the Elevator Santa Justa, by the vision of an old tramway talking to the more modern one in the room below. We observe with delight the ancient azulejos at the bottom of the staircase in full conversation with this detail of the monument of the discoveries that strikes us by its precision.
I felt like I was hearing the fado tonight!
The prints presented were all made by the Pictorium Gallery, which is also a digigraphy publisher under the name The Desk. She also offers art boxes of the artist.
Printed at 30 copies, these boxes contain a biography of the artist, a contact sheet of the proposed pictures and 12 pictures signed by the photographer.
The exhibition is on view from February 18 to April 7, 2010 at the Gallery open from 10 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday and from 11 am to 7 pm on Saturday.
The Pictorium Gallery
12 rue du Moulin Joly
75011 Paris
Tel : 01.75.43.40.55
www.ledesk.com
Marie-Odile Radom
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