Du bout du monde...au coin de la table: an exhibition that takes us on a journey through Françoise Huguier's work and the domestic cartographies she draws, from Norilsk to Kuala Lumpur.
To bear witness to the world as it is, photographer Françoise Huguier (1942) has always preferred the exiguity of modest homes to the grandiloquence of vast expanses. Since "home" is the cell from which we really inhabit the world, it's from here that she observes her contemporaries. The kitchen, bathroom and toilet are the crucible spaces of our lives into which she invites herself. And what if the trivial objects that accumulate there in small arrangements reveal more about our societies than the great monuments proudly displayed?
The "Matière terrestre" exhibition unfolds the interiors in which Françoise Huguier has chosen to linger, the better to evoke the people who live, wash, cook and sleep there. From her prolific body of work, she has selected photographs from a number of major housing projects built over the last thirty years. Excerpts from life in the communal apartments of St. Petersburg stand side by side with those of the peoples of the distant Behring Strait, or of the middle classes in the megacities of Southeast Asia. In these intimate settings, in a profusion of colors, textures and materials, we come across many of the women whose daily lives the photographer shared.
In the image of these interiors, distilling a precipitate of our ways of inhabiting the world, the "Matière terrestre" exhibition is conceived as a condensation of Françoise Huguier?s lucid genius for telling us about the Earth and its hosts of the moment, seemingly out of the blue, on the corner of a table, in the minutiae of these intimacies.
Free admission
To bear witness to the world as it is, photographer Françoise Huguier (1942) has always preferred the exiguity of modest homes to the grandiloquence of vast expanses. Since "home" is the cell from which we really inhabit the world, it's from here that she observes her contemporaries. The kitchen, bathroom and toilet are the crucible spaces of our lives into which she invites herself. And what if the trivial objects that accumulate there in small arrangements reveal more about our societies than the great monuments proudly displayed?
The "Matière terrestre" exhibition unfolds the interiors in which Françoise Huguier has chosen to linger, the better to evoke the people who live, wash, cook and sleep there. From her prolific body of work, she has selected photographs from a number of major housing projects built over the last thirty years. Excerpts from life in the communal apartments of St. Petersburg stand side by side with those of the peoples of the distant Behring Strait, or of the middle classes in the megacities of Southeast Asia. In these intimate settings, in a profusion of colors, textures and materials, we come across many of the women whose daily lives the photographer shared.
In the image of these interiors, distilling a precipitate of our ways of inhabiting the world, the "Matière terrestre" exhibition is conceived as a condensation of Françoise Huguier?s lucid genius for telling us about the Earth and its hosts of the moment, seemingly out of the blue, on the corner of a table, in the minutiae of these intimacies.
Free admission
