SIDONIE RONFARD
FACTORY #14
“INCERTITUDE”
Sidonie Ronfard is the winner of Factory #14 ‘INCERTITUDE’ in partnership with CIMI in Toulouse.
The residency runs from March to early July at the CIMI (Centre International de Mathématiques et Informatique) in Toulouse. It brings together members of the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT), the Institut de Recherche et Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) and six teams from the Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes (LAAS). These three units are research laboratories under the supervision of the CNRS and components of the University of Toulouse.
Turbulences
Through a process of photographic experimentation, Sidonie Ronfard aims to capture the imprint of the present from several angles and using different sensors and settings, in order to produce images of varying typology.
Her idea is to show that changes in parameters give a very different impression and experience of reality.
The arrangement of the photographic sensors presents different points of view of the same object, at the same time. The results are presented side by side. In this way, we have several views of the same scene, but the difference in viewpoints creates doubt and uncertainty as to the specific layout of the scene. The aim is to photograph an instant and experience it from several points of view simultaneously.
Turbulences reflects a trembling, a disturbance in our inner tranquillity. The notion is broadly understood and describes an emotion as much as a phenomenon. This perspective gives attention to detail, and highlights the ‘accidents’ of everyday life: wind, dust, light leaks, splashes, hand movements, sudden lightning… Tensions are created between the mastery of the device and the randomness it suggests. It’s a form of harmony and chaos: a panel of photographs that present the making of reality.
Born in Paris in 1996, Sidonie Ronfard is a photographer and visual artist who graduated from ENSAD (photo-video department).
She is the winner of the Prix de La Jeune Photographie Européenne in 2019. That same year, she took part in the Master Photography programme at Aalto University in Finland.
In 2022, Sidonie took part in an artistic residency on board the ship Marion Dufresne in collaboration with IFREMER, a first look at the convergence between art and science.
In 2023, Sidonie was a finalist for the AMMA Prize (Prize for Contemporary Art), a recognition combined with an exhibition at the Bastille Design Center in Paris.
