Galerie Documents 15 presents a recent series of photographs by French visual artist Édith Dufaux, titled its « Petit Théâtre ».
Graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Édith Dufaux develops a singular practice based on two primary medias: monotype and photography. She has also applied her visual language to artistic book publishing, audiovisual work, and set design for theater, opera, cinema, and museums.
In her photographic work, Dufaux explores fictional architectures born from small boxes — simultaneously optical theater, minimal unit, and experimental space. Models, scales, walls, and grids form a condensed universe, which the camera transforms into a monumental dimension. She plays with scale, thresholds, and passages to challenge perceptions of space. Her contemporary « camera obscura » boxes combine shapes and materials into fragmented visions, bordering on abstraction.
Thus emerges a theater of shadows and silence, where measurement meets mystery, intimate memory meets fictional architecture. In this poetic and precise petit théâtre, each photograph becomes a trace of a world both closed and infinite, reflecting the sensitivity championed by the gallery.
Galerie Documents 15
Located in Saint-Germain-des-Prés since 2012, Galerie Documents 15 supports contemporary art through original prints and unique works on paper, including monotypes, drawings, paintings, and photographs. The gallery organizes around ten exhibitions annually, mostly monographic, featuring French and international artists, both established and emerging. Its artistic focus favors a refined figuration, characterized by subtlety, silence, and poetry.