Sguardi.info has the pleasure of introducing the preview exhibition of Femmes d'intérieurs, photos by Estelle Lagarde, shown at the Galerie des AAB, the Belville's artists atelier, on occasion of the monthly events organized by photo-off project.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 2nd November till 4th November 2006.
Galerie des AAB, 32 rue de la Mare, 75020 Paris
Monday and Thurstday from 6 pm to 8 pm
From Wednesday to Sunday From 2 pm to 8 pm
Vernissage : On Friday 10th November after 6 pm. Open invitation to the readers of Sguardi.info by booking at this email address: Lagardeestelle@yahoo.fr
Estelle Lagarde was born in 1973. She has trained both as an architect and photographer. In fact, from 1996, besides architecture, she starts to cultivate a passion for photography that leads her to create photos in which black and white images capture close correspondences between characters, landscapes, or places, and specific moods. This leads to a perception of the undefined and profound element present in the depicted subjects.
Lagarde exercises all her technical skills to find the right point of view from which to abstract with her camera costrasting images that evokes certain emotions.
Today her work focuses on the portrait of places that change as time goes by, now also photographed in colour. Empty houses, abandoned buildings, isolation and decay, due to the passage of time, are staged to show their story and frailty in a moving way.
The artist in an interview with Sguardi.info declares : « In an intuitive way I know that each place where we live retains a bit of our presence. The privacy of a room watches over the most private story: that of our sensations and that of our dreams. In the city I visit old abandoned buildings and I elaborate, for the last time, inventories of places fallen into disuse. Four walls, filled with what they have learnt from us, give back with their decay the image of a silhouette.Torn wallpaper, dark blue pieces of fitted carpet and yellowed paint are the faded reflection of a tenant's tenderness.
Entering these old houses something moves me. Then I long to put a character inside them, a last breath of life, as if I wanted to make live again an istant and the hearts that lived here. I try to find the intensity of an emotion in those walls. A woman's emotion, a woman with no face and no age, perhaps me, perhaps another person, dressed in black or sometimes naked. Colour photograph allows me to show places as they are when I come across them. Nothing is modified by remouving or adding elements. I Choose the best perspectve to show the beauty of the decoration present in the portrayed room. Whereas black and white photograph leads to the essential quality of a memory, of a dream...of a poem. It's no more important to know what colour can explain. What remains it is a sensation. just a sensation. To explain what I love in these places I'd say that I make a parallel between a specific reality and my mental images of them. The look gives rise to a story and becomes a metaphor of our fragile existence when it goes from a click to another. In these places something happened. or it could have happened... ».
