1.0Agence VU'https://agencevu.com/en/Fanny Demichelishttps://agencevu.com/en/author/fanny/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://agencevu.com/en/fat-event/lepreuve-du-reel-chapitre-1/">L’épreuve du réel, Chapitre 1 : La photographie à l’épreuve de la colorisation</a></blockquote> <script type='text/javascript'> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";var e=!1,n=!1;if(l.querySelector)if(d.addEventListener)e=!0;if(d.wp=d.wp||{},!d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(t)if(t.secret||t.message||t.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var r,i,a,s=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),c=0;c<n.length;c++)n[c].style.display="none";for(c=0;c<s.length;c++)if(r=s[c],e.source===r.contentWindow){if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(a=parseInt(t.value,10)))a=1e3;else if(~~a<200)a=200;r.height=a}if("link"===t.message)if(i=l.createElement("a"),a=l.createElement("a"),i.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,o.test(a.protocol))if(a.host===i.host)if(l.activeElement===r)d.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),d.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(!n){n=!0;for(var e,t,r=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),i=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),a=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),s=0;s<a.length;s++){if(!(e=a[s]).getAttribute("data-secret"))t=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t);if(r||i)(t=e.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),e.parentNode.replaceChild(t,e)}}}}(window,document); //--><!]]> </script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://agencevu.com/en/fat-event/lepreuve-du-reel-chapitre-1/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“L’épreuve du réel, Chapitre 1 : La photographie à l’épreuve de la colorisation” — Agence VU'" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>https://agencevu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/©-Ouka-LeeleVU-22Desnudo-con-periodicos22-1981.jpg7561000For each of these artists, colorization is applied with unique methods and intentions. Spanish artist Ouka Leele, in the heart of the Movida Madrileña, gave free rein to her unbridled creativity by hand-coloring her prints with watercolor, transforming reality into a dimension full of fantasy and deliberately assumed kitsch. Israel Ariño entrusts his analog images, taken in Picardy, to Catalan artist Clara Gassull, who works on them using a digital palette of eight colors. Together, they reinterpret the landscape, subtly re-enchanting the territory. Rima Samman works with archival images, whether from her family or the press. Through color, she revives the past, reactivates it, questions memory, and brings new life and meaning to remembrance. Irène Jonas presents seaside landscapes in three-part sequences. Her oil-painted enhancements on black-and-white prints disturb the very materiality of the images and the elements, creating a kind of vertigo between the intensity of the elements and the slowness of the process.Through added color, photography is never a tautological representation of the reality from which it originates. The artists’ interventions reveal unsettling aspects of the world that our distracted gaze might not have dared to perceive.