Opening Wenesday 26 juanary from 6pm to 9pm
Curator : Xavier Franceschi
Pour la vie takes visitors on a journey through portraits of struggling individuals or groups, bearing witness to photographic series initiated by Bruno Serralongue several years ago, to which new productions have been added.
Since the early 1990s, the artist has been questioning the uses and status of the photographic image, going out to meet the communities that are formed around social and political events and the people who are fighting a battle on which their living conditions depend. The artist focuses on the backstage of the event and its traces and thus offers a “displaced” point of view that questions the notion of objectivity of the photographic medium and the informative power of the image.
Whether it is a series on the migrant camps in Calais, begun in 2006, or more recently the struggle of North American First Nations against oil pipelines threatening their environment, or the defenders of the Jardins Ouvriers des Vertus in Aubervilliers threatened with destruction and the evicted occupants of a workers’ hostel in Saint-Ouen – in the run-up to the 2024 Olympics -, the exhibition interweaves the trajectories of individuals and the energy of the collective.
By inviting us to take the time to decipher what we see as well as what we do not see in the image and by leaving us free to interpret it, Bruno Serralongue’s photographs encourage us to question the notion of reality regarding what the media transmit to us.
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frac île-de-france, le plateau
22 rue des Alouettes
75019 Paris
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Wed-Sun. : 2pm-7pm
Nocturnal every 1st Wednesday of the month, until 9pm
Free admission
Rendez-vous
Film program
Saturday 03.19 – 14:00 – 19:00
Projection of films in the exhibition of Bruno Serralongue
With films by Halil Altindere, Fikret Atay, Marcos Avila Forero, Doris Buttignol, Cécile Hartmann, Laura Henno, Enrique Ramirez, Til Roskens.
Calais (2006–2020)/ Bruno Serralongue
Saturday 04.02 – 18:00 – 20:00
On the occasion of the release of the book Calais (2006–2020) dedicated to the photographic series about migrants in Calais, discussion with the authors of the book.
Texts by Jacques Rancière and Florian Ebner.
Plateau-Apéro
Wednesday 04.06 – 19:00 – 21:00
Nocturne
Every 1st Wednesday of the month
Open until 9pm
Guided tours
Every Sunday – 4 pm