Guillaume Herbaut — 7/7

« Croiser des mondes. Aspects du document contemporain » – 7/7

Jeu de Paume
1 Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris (FRANCE)

From October 04 to December 31, 2005

Works by Emmanuelle Antille, Guillaume Herbaut, Geert Goiris, Stanley Greene, Janaina Tschäpe

“One might be tempted to ask: what territory do we come from, and what territory do we work on? What mission has been assigned (to bear witness, to archive, to keep a trace, to tell, etc.) and for what purpose? What approach, what “style” was used? These are all important questions.
But one could also say: when one makes an image of the real world, one reconstructs a certain state of things, one isolates, one frames, one produces a kind of partial and discontinuous simulacrum, whose elements will be then arranged in a certain way (by the assembly, the sequence) to be presented to others.

In doing so, it is a complex passage that is carried out (…) Different worlds are intertwined: the real world, which these images are supposed to evoke; the world of art forms, from whose history no one escapes; a history and a subjective discourse, as much on the side of the one who made the images as on the side of the one who watches them.
This complex space is that of the contemporary document, in which some could see a place of renewal for photography.”

Régis Durand

7/7, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2005

7/7, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2005