From November 5 to December 31, 2009, Emmanuelle Boucher offers us at the Espace BERGGER a conversation between these three great cities through the eyes of three photographers: Emmanuelle Tricoire, Serge Ricco and Barbara Bouyne.
Singular exchanges between three international cities, this triptych offers us a different idea of the city beyond the architecture but through the individuals who live in it and transcend it…
Between the two megacities – Paris and New York – which talk to each other and sometimes merge, Berlin stands apart, straight in its boots but strong in color and urban art.
NY // Emmanuelle Tricoire
Emmanuelle Tricoire’s New York is the result of her project “NewYork Fuckin’ City” about youth and energy in New York. From her numerous trips and encounters with the street scene (from the Bronx to Harlem), Emmanuelle approaches the Big Apple with a whiff of “hustlin” and reinvents the city with her incisive and maternal gaze.
Emmanuelle Tricoire Skyscraper
Emmanuelle Tricoire Norisol
Far from the usual photography of New-York, Emmanuelle Tricoire offers us a vision in color of these streets of New-York. It is a city seen from these heights sometimes reversing the impression of vertigo that it can cause. But the real strength of his look is not in these color photos but in a pure black and white tribute to what makes this city strong: its people. From the pure street style to the more classic neo-bourgeois, we feel the essence of these people, their roughness and simplicity in front of the greatness of the architecture of this city. And she succeeds in doing so, in making us remember what her people carry within them, all that energy that carries them.
PARIS // Serge Ricco
The works of Serge Ricco, artistic director of Télérama, are the fruit of a project of more than three years, the “Pic Of The Day”, an observatory of our “small moments” of daily life, often obsolete, sometimes caustic, an abstract trace of events and emotions. His photographs of Parisian scenes evoke with humor and a certain nostalgia, a timeless world where clichés rub shoulders with poetry.
Serge Ricco 2
Serge Ricco 2
Serge Ricco shows us a legendary Paris: the fashion, the department stores, the tourist places, the subway and the small unexpected daily sketches. Of this legendary Paris that we cross every day but that we don’t look at anymore or so little. He almost tells us not to forget that Paris is all that, but it is not a stationary city, no, it is still in motion. It’s a non-static look, a living look. borrowed of tenderness on a city which sometimes sleeps but often wakes up in contact with what made it his own…
BERLIN // Barbara Bouyne
Barbara Bouyne explores Berlin in the form of a photographic installation: a search for detail in the grandeur and monumentality that the city of Berlin offers. His tangy collection of “kaugummiautomat” (candy boxes that decorate every corner of Berlin’s streets) evokes the emergence of an artistic city whose cultural multidisciplinarity makes it the essential platform of the underground scene.
Barbara Bouyne kaugummiautomat
Barbara takes us by surprise. Far from the austerity of a city in full boom, it counts us the course of these boxes between street art and testimony. His work, like a fresco, takes us to the limits of urban art. Partisan of a very raw scenography, her photos speak only of her vision and finally little of the city, in what allows to differentiate it from its neighbor. No, it only tells us about the traces of life left by the inhabitants through one of its strongest disappeared symbols: a wall filled with tags, prints, memories….
A very good exhibition with a successful opening and beautiful looks…
This exhibition is visible at the Espace BERGGER (www.bergger.com) 4, rue des Filles du Calvaire 75003 Paris from Tuesday to Saturday 14h-19h and was realized in partnership with PICTO (agency of photographic prints – www.picto.fr)
Marie-Odile Radom
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