For PhotoSaintGermain, the Fondation LAccolade presents the exhibition Ce qui fait trace sans faire de bruit, bringing together works from its collection alongside pieces by invited artists. Together, they offer a sensitive reflection on our relationship with memory, disappearance, and the territories we inhabit. Landscapes, whether urban or natural, are considered as living spaces traversed by stories, recollections, and discontinuities. Photography, unfolds here as a material in transformation. Far from the spectacular, the works favor slow, fragile, and sometimes precarious approaches, reflecting a form of aesthetic slowing-down in contrast to contemporary visual frenzy. In this context, the artists seek to make tangible what tends to disappear. Their photographic gestures engage a physical relationship with the medium, through experiments conducted at the scale of the body or the territory. The images are created on sensitive, porous, and alterable supports, combining traditional techniques with contemporary technologies. They open a field of exploration where the sensitive and temporal, the real and memory, intersect.
Echoing Anna Tsing’s reflections on forms of life emerging in the ruins of the capitalocene, the exhibition sketches a poetics of slowness and disappearance. It invites attention to subtle narratives and suggests, perhaps, new ways of inhabiting the world with care, delicacy, and listening.
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La Fondation LAccolade – Institut de France
The Fondation LAccolade – Institut de France aims to support, promote, and foster artistic creation. It backs projects related to women, water, the environment, the fragility of life, and cultural heritage, through research and creation residencies located in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The foundation engages in exchanges with similar residencies in France and abroad. It initiates exhibitions in Paris and California and provides sponsorship for artists and associative organizations.