DATES
Opening thursday the 13rd, from 6pm to 9pm
from 13rd to 16th of November
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Building on a reflection on contemporary photographic practices and the legendary status of Hôtel La Louisiane, PhotoSaintGermain has for the past three years invited a selection of artists to inhabit a hotel room for four days.
Echoing the history of Hôtel La Louisiane and its unique atmosphere, this year’s exhibition explores jetlag—the physical, mental, and cultural shift—as a space for creation.
Artists were selected through an open call.
Room 31 Rue Désirée Chevalier Claire Cocano
Rue Désiré Chevalier transports us to an apartment, the one my Yugoslavian grandparents moved into when they arrived in France in the 1960s. It was in this same apartment that, forty years later, they witnessed the dissolution of their native country.
Memories intertwine like the embroidery my grandmother used to sew. Through my own images, family photographs, excerpts from diaries, letters and identity cards, I reinterpret my connection to this lost country, creating a powerful narrative between past and present, country of origin and adopted country.
Room 32 Paparazzi Mazaccio & Drowilal
Between 2012 and 2021, we created a series of 29 photomontages in which we proposed a typology of the behavior and activities of stars by diverting images of celebrities taken by paparazzi.
Echoing the theme of Jetlag, we have selected 9 recent collages from this series, with particular attention to images featuring marginal situations and behaviors, standardized non-places, an altered perception and dreamlike or apocalyptic settings.
Room 33 Pays sans sommeil Adrienne Surprenant
Pays sans sommeil is a photographic project carried out in the Central African Republic between 2017 and 2021, exploring dreams and trauma in a war context. By asking people affected by the conflict about their sleep, the photographer examines how trauma manifests through dreams, nightmares, and insomnia. Testimonies, photographs, and dreamlike narratives form a sensitive portrait of a country haunted by violence.
Room 34 Night Flight Sakiko Nomura
Room 35 Vertikale stadt – Ein zukünftiger film Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber
« If you want to make a feature film, you need ideas for 70 scenes. » Following this advice by David Lynch the artists develop their new projects, shifting between photography and film. The screenplay of »Vertical City« takes you from Paris via Ruhr Area and Chongqing to Japan and back to Europe. The scripts originate from the metro line 14: from encounters in and around the stations. Each scene explores the topic of leaving and the various layers of urban, narrative and photographic layers.
Room 36 Meta - Meta Ian Cheibub
Curation : Emmanuelle Halkin
Room 37 Black-out Mathis Benestebe
Black-out is the result of a two-year personal investigation into my experience of dissociative amnesia.
Autobiographical memory loss caused by intense stress, this protective mechanism is characterized by a disconnection between the amygdala and the hippocampus during a traumatic event.
Like searching through a forbidden attic, I attempt to reach these inaccessible memories. The narrative revolves around the obsessive quest to unlock this memory buried within the unconscious.
Room 38 Telepoetics Patricia Morosan
TELEPOETICS - Practices of Intimacy at a Distance is a hybrid project that experiments with communication beyond physical presence. Initiated by Patricia Morosan and pursued in collaboration with Bianca Oana, the project contemplates the notion of transmission and reception of thoughts, ideas and images. Through 28 telepathy sessions spread across one year, Patricia Morosan & Bianca Oana take turns in transmitting and receiving, each time starting with a photograph. They generate a poetic visual correspondence that explores negotiating distance – not to overcome it, but to inhabit it and travel within it.
Room 40 Le hameau Nina Medioni
traduit par morgane : Le Hameau is an ongoing project focused on the holiday camp Le Hameau de la Baume, located in La Roque-d’Anthéron, a small town in the Bouches-du-Rhône region. Its bungalows were once the barracks of one of the last hamlets of forestage—former labor camps that housed dozens of Harki families after the Algerian War and up until the 1970s.
Rather than photographing the traces of its history, I came to document those of erasure — this repetitive mechanism in which one vacationing family follows another, where everything feels familiar yet becomes replaceable and quickly forgotten.
Hôtel La Louisiane
Nestled amid chaos, freedom, and seemingly nonsensical yet precious chatter, Hôtel La Louisiane has built its unique identity at 60 Rue de Seine, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Since the days of Rimbaud and Verlaine, artists, creators, and travelers seeking wonder have stayed for brief visits or residencies. Among those who have lived there are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Juliette Gréco, Lucian Freud, Albertine Sarrazin, Syd Barrett, Keith Haring, Quentin Tarantino, and other contemporary figures to whom Hôtel La Louisiane owes its discretion.