Exposition "Sabine Weiss & Nathalie Boutté. Hommage"

À l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Sabine Weiss, Photo Elysée presents an exposition en hommage à la photographe décédée en 2021 et invite l'artiste plasticienne Nathalie Boutté (France, 1967) à dialoguer avec ses photographies. While Sabine Weiss constructed her oeuvre by photographing the street or responding to orders by working in her studio, Nathalie Boutté does not take photographs, but rather minutely prints the strips of paper on which she imprints a text. She then recomposes the images from which she is inspired by assembling the sheets of paper, thus creating the work in volume. The images, made of bandelettes that allow her to create the dégradés de gris as soon as there is a text - here the citations by Sabine Weiss, are evoked in the air and to the extent that one recognizes them.

By opening up its archives to Nathalie Boutté, Photo Elysée evokes a méconnu pan of Sabine Weiss's oeuvre, especially her studio work. Établie à Paris en 1946, la photographe, figure majeure de la photographie humaniste, était animée par une curiosité insatiable envers son médium. The exhibition showcases a few gems among the 200,000 negatives and 7,000 planches-contact that make up her 2017 collection.

Photo Elysée has one of the largest collections dedicated to photography in the world. It covers the entire history of the medium, from its invention in the XIXth century to digital technologies. As part of Photo Elysée, Sabine Weiss joins other names in photography, such as René Burri, Leonard Freed, Henriette Grindat, Monique Jacot, Lehnert & Landrock and Ella Maillart.

L'exposition est soutenue par la Fondation Coromandel et par Kering | Women In Motion


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