RÉSIDENCE 2024
Céline Clanet, Gaëlle Delort & Alžběta Wolfová
Fabulae
« Doesn’t the most contemporary photography turn the medium on its head? Commonly perceived as a documentary tool, it is now practised by certain artists as a visual language whose poetry enables us to respond to our need for new narratives. Fabulae explores the themes of life and belief in photographic fables that regenerate our imaginations between art and science: what is the place of humans in the animal kingdom and at the heart of telluric forces? From the world of caves to the kingdom of insects, via the repressed animism of the modern world, Fabulae offers a lucid re-enchantment of our future.
These are the opening words of Michel Poivert, historian of photography and honorary patron of the Résidence 1+2. They wonderfully define the collaborative and creative dynamic of the photographers, artists and scientists involved in this 9th edition.
Science has never been so central to public debate. Scientists are analysing, researching, comparing and publishing articles and reports. In short, they are on the front line. Our photographers in residence are often the privileged witnesses of their contemporary questioning and bring their distanced and innovative viewpoints. It’s in this sensitive and creative vein that all the actions of the 1+2 Residency fit in: creating original visual content in local areas in order to question the issues at stake.
From its very beginnings, photography has been in dialogue with science. Photographers and scientists share a desire to give meaning to the visible and the invisible, and thus to construct new forms of interpretation. They speak as equals in 1+2. Associating photography with the sciences, with all the sciences, means creating a virtuous chain of transmission of knowledge and practices. Since 2015, 1+2 has claimed to be a laboratory of ideas and a factory of possibilities. Isn’t that also the ideal definition of a creative residency?
For this 9th edition, we have chosen to support the projects of photographers and artists from different backgrounds, generations and practices: Céline Clanet, Gaëlle Delort, Alžběta Wolfová (Czech Republic), Sidonie Ronfard, Arianna Sanesi (Italy). Each of them is part of this hybridisation of fields of knowledge. Supported in their research by institutions and scientists from the metropolitan, departmental and regional areas, each of them offers us their respective subjectivities on multiple sensitive surfaces in an accepted rereading of reality.
Philippe Guionie
Director of Résidence 1+2
EDITO
LES PHOTOGRAPHES
EXPOSITION ARIANNA SANESI
Résidence 1+2 FACtory #15
25 SEPT - JANV 2024
VERNISSAGE
24 SEPT > 17H30 Cité de l'espace
NUIT DES CHERCHEUR·E·S & MAPPING
4 OCT 2024
Cité de l'espace
EXPOSITION SIDONIE RONFARD
RÉSIDENCE 1+2 FACTORY #14
17 OCT - 1 NOV 2024
VERNISSAGE16 OCT > 18H
Chapelle des Carmélites
COLLOQUE
19 OCT 2024
9H30 > 18HMusée d'art moderne et contemporain
Les Abattoirs
EMILIA GENUARDI
PATRON 2024
Emilia Genuardi is a contemporary photography specialist and curator, founding director of the a ppr oc he and unRepresented by a pp roc he fairs.
After studying art history and architecture at the University of Manchester, she moved to Paris and worked as a photographer’s agent. For 10 years, Emilia has been travelling the world, producing various series of images, books and exhibitions. In 2012, she undertook the artistic direction of the Galerie Madé, in Paris, bringing together established artists and avant-garde creations.
In 2017, driven by the desire to create a fair with a unique format, she founded the a ppr oc he fair, dedicated to artists who experiment with the photographic medium.
Cultivating her support for contemporary creation, Emilia Genuardi imagines in 2023 unRepresented by a ppr oc he, the first fair dedicated to artists not represented in galleries and supported by a community of collectors. These two independent annual meetings are produced by the company a ccr oc he, which she founded in 2018. In parallel, Emilia regularly takes part in juries and portfolio readings, taught a course on Photography from 2018 to 2022 and its market at the Paris College of Arts, and collaborates regularly with the Eyes in Progress training center through various mentoring programs.
Since 2020, she is artistic advisor for photography for the Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains, which rewards a cross-creative and original project by a photographer and a composer.
Emilia Genuardi has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Life Foundation since 2021.
MICHEL POIVERT
HONORARY PATRON 2024
Michel Poivert is Professor of Art History at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, where he founded the chair of history of photography, he is also a critic and exhibition curator.
Historian of photography, his publications include La photographie contemporaine (Flammarion, 2018), L’image au service de la révolution (Le Point du Jour Éditeurs, 2006), Gilles Caron, le conflit intérieur (Photosynthèse, 2012), Brève histoire de la photographie, essai (Hazan, 2015), Les Peintres photographes : de Degas à Hockney (Citadelles & Mazenod, 2017), Gilles Caron, 1968 (Flammarion, 2018) and 50 ans de photographie française de 1970 à nos jours (Textuel, 2019). He has notably organised the exhibitions La Région humaine (Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, 2006), L’Événement, les images comme acteur de l’histoire (Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2007), Gilles Caron, le conflit intérieur (Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2013), Nadar, la Norme et le Caprice (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscou, 2015), Gilles Caron Paris 1968 (Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 2018), Philippe Chancel Datazone (Arles, 2019), “Métamorphose, la photographie en France 1968-1989” (Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, 2022).
He is otherwise president of the association of prefiguration of the Collège international de photographie (CIPGP).
CATHERINE JEANDEL
HONORARY PATRON 2024
Catherine Jeandel is an oceanographer and director of research at CNRS, where she studies marine geochemistry to understand the mechanisms that determine how the ocean functions, in particular continent-ocean interactions. She is also Director of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées.
Catherine Jeandel joined the CNRS in 1983. In 1988, she left for Columbia University (USA) to develop isotopic marine geochemistry and in 1990 rejoined the research team in Toulouse that would become LEGOS. She has carried out more than fifteen campaigns at sea, i.e. scientific expeditions that can last up to two months. From 13 January to 8 March 2021, she co-lead the Swings mission. Two months at sea collecting, sampling and filtering water with the aim of understanding how the ocean helps regulate the climate by absorbing atmospheric CO2.
She is coordinating a global geochemical sea exploration project called GEOTRACES (www.geotraces.org). Involved in scientific mediation, she is one of the Toulouse initiators of the Climate Train which criss-crossed France in 2015, on the occasion of the COP21.
Catherine Jeandel wrote, with Matthieu Roy-Barman, a book on marine geochemistry and co-edited with Rémy Mosseri and CNRS-Edition Le Climat à découvert, L’énergie à découvert then L’eau à découvert, books that list 100 articles written by 130 authors. She was elected to the presidency of the Academic Council of the Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Federal University in September 2017. She was awarded the bronze medal of the CNRS in 1992, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2009, Officier de l’Ordre du mérite in 2013 and in 2018 she was awarded the Georges Millot medal by the Académie des sciences and was nominated as a fellow of the Geochemical Society and the American Geophysical Union.
