Jean-Robert Dantou — A balles réelles - Tonnerre 2017-2022

Jean-Robert Dantou — À balles réelles – Tonnerre 2017-2022

Exhibition from 1st to 29th June 2024

Hôtel Coeurderoy, 22 rue Rougemont, 89700 Tonnerre

Thursday 30 May at 2.30pm – Press visit in the presence of the artist

Saturday 1st June from 3pm – Vernissage

À balles réelles is an exhibition of documentary photography resulting from five years of creative research in the town of Tonnerre. Visitors will discover photographs, texts and maps describing the contemporary transformations of a rural area. The scenography is organized around three scientific questions: How do you explain the fact that people in precarious situations have moved to a town they didn’t even know existed? How, in the face of major economic and social difficulties, do some inhabitants manage to hold on while others die or disappear? And under what conditions can documentary photography reliably describe the world under observation?

Crédit photos : © Jean-Robert Dantou / SACRe-PSL / BNF / Agence VU’

Artistic and scientific director: Jean-Robert Dantou
Set design: Mitia Claisse
Production: Printille Davigo
Production: Archibald Peeters
Graphics: Timothée Bernard and Marie Aumont
Illustrations: Ninon Bonzom
Scientific and artistic advisors: Paco Rapin (ENS) and Mathias Nouel (Agence VU’)
Press officer: Anaïs Viand
Public relations: Zia Perthuisot

An exhibition produced by the town of Tonnerre, L’Aracande and La Broussaille.

Sculpture in terracotta and papier-mâché by Sébastien, placed here on his balcony, Prés-Hauts social housing estate, Tonnerre, 23 March 2022.

Portrait of Lorenzo on the banks of the Burgundy canal, Tenir series, Tonnerre, 2 December 2020.

Portrait of Ludovic at his home, Prés-Hauts social housing estate, Tonnerre, 22 December 2020.

Vue sur les toits de la rue du Général Campenon depuis l’église Saint-Pierre. Série État des lieux, Tonnerre, le 30 novembre 2018.