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Philippe Guionie, Sara Imlou, Donata Wenders, Format POLA, Photography - Polka Galerie, Paris, France
Image credit Swimming in the Black Sea, © Philippe Guionie, courtesy Polka Galerie

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 Published November 22, 2012 at 04:47pm
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Philippe Guionie, Sara Imlou, Donata Wenders

Format POLA
Polka Galerie, Photography, Paris, France
Saturday November 24, 2012 - Saturday January 12, 2013 - Event ended.

On the occasion of ”Le Mois de la photo 2012” biennale in Paris, Polka Galerie is pleased to present ”Format POLA”, a group show on the theme of ”Small is beautiful” submitted by Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, with the photographic works of Philippe Guionie, Sara Imloul, and Donata Wenders. ”Format POLA” celebrates small format prints. Focused on the essence, it shows the very first intention of the artist.

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Donata Wenders: In the Snow

Donata Wenders worked in the movie industry for a long time before she started displaying her talent for photography. Known for her work in black and white, the Berlin photographer is inspired by Henri-Cartier Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz and more recently, Peter Lindbergh. Donata Wenders’ photographs use lighting and shadows effects and reflections. She enjoys working with the atmosphere and the light of the moment without following any rules or pre-established directions. After shooting famous artists such as Pina Bausch or Yohji Yamamoto, Donata Wenders produced a subtle series of photographs entitled "In the Snow" : a black figure wearing a long coat rises from an immaculate landscape. She seems to be prisoner of this tiny space...

Donata Wenders a longtemps travaillé pour le cinéma avant de déployer ses talents pour la photographie. Fidèle au noir et blanc, la photographe d’origine berlinoise s’inspire d’Henri Cartier-Bresson, d’Alfred Stieglitz et, plus récemment, de Peter Lindbergh. Les photographies de Donata Wenders jouent avec la lumière, l’ombre et les effets de miroir. Elle aime travailler sans règle ni direction, avec l’ambiance et la lumière de l’instant.
Après avoir capturé des créateurs tels que Pina Bausch ou encore Yohji Yamamoto, Donata Wenders réalise la délicate série « In the Snow ». Dans ce monde immaculé, une silhouette noire se dessine, couverte d’un long manteau, comme prisonnière de ce petit espace...

Sara Imloul: Négatifs

After the series "Le Cirque noir" (2008-2011), Sara Imloul, born in 1986, produced ”Négatifs”. With this work she continues her quest of the original intentions of photography and the artist. Sara Imloul exposes the paper directly in her film camera. This process creates unique small format prints. The artist’s work stands between portraits, still lives, circus faeries and abstractive shapes. These "Négatifs" have a disconcerting similarity with drawing and engraving. They tell us the story of the light print.

Après « Le Cirque noir » (2008-2011), Sara Imloul, née en 1986, poursuit avec « Négatifs » sa quête de l’intention première de la photographie et de l’auteur. En exposant directement le papier lors de la prise de vue, Sara Imloul crée avec sa chambre photographique des oeuvres uniques.
Entre portraits et natures mortes, fééries du cirque et formes abstraites, ces « Négatifs », dont la ressemblance avec le dessin et la gravure est troublante, racontent l’empreinte de la lumière.

Philippe Guionie: Swimming in the Black Sea & Délestage

In "Swimming in the Black Sea", Philippe Guionie follows in the footsteps of Kébaran, the stubborn character in Jules Vernes’ eponymous novel. During eight years (2004-2012), Guionie explored Kébaran’s fictional traces on the shore of the Black Sea. "Délestage", produced in 2011 and 2012, constitutes a diary from his travel in N’Djamena’s streets. These black and white photographs translate the dusty atmosphere filled with white shadows of the Chadian capital that regularly suffers from electrical "délestages", i.e power outages. Philippe Guionie, a trained historian, born in 1972, centers his photographic work on the themes of identity and memory, especially in Africa. For over ten years, he travelled and photographed sub-Saharan Africa. He focused his work on how identities are constructed ("Le tirailleur et les trois fleuves", 2008). He then continued this inquiry in Latin America where he questioned another "Africa", one that was born out of Spanish slavery. The photographer introduces two series of polaroids, which are poetic images of his journeys, entitled "Swimming in the Black Sea" and "Délestage".

« Swimming in the Black Sea » nous fait voyager dans les pas de Kéraban-le-Têtu, le personnage de Jules Verne. Philippe Guionie a exploré ses traces fictives sur les rives des pays de la mer Noire pendant huit ans (2004-2012).
En parallèle, la série « Délestage », réalisée entre 2011 et 2012, constitue un carnet de voyage dans les quartiers de N’Djamena. Des clichés en noir et blanc retranscrivent l’atmosphère poussiéreuse et peuplée de silhouettes blanches de la capitale tchadienne qui subit de nombreux « délestages » d’électricité (coupures de courant généralisées).
Philippe Guionie, historien de formation, né en 1972, revendique une photographie documentaire autour des thèmes de l’identité et de la mémoire. Pendant plus de dix ans, il a voyagé et photographié l’Afrique noire sur des thématiques liées aux parcours et aux constructions identitaires (« Le tirailleur et les trois fleuves », 2008).
Par la suite, il a entrepris une quête identitaire en Amérique latine où il a interrogé une autre Afrique, celle issue de l’esclavage espagnol (« Africa-America » 2008-2011).
« Swimming in the Black Sea » et « Délestage », deux séries entre poésie et voyage, sont réalisées au Polaroid.


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