PRIVATE ROOMS — Photographers of the 20th Century
Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Beard, Guy Bourdin, Larry Clark, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Peter Lindbergh
Robert Mapplethorpe, Daido Moriyama, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Jeanloup Sieff, Melvin Sokolsky, Joel Sternfeld, John Stewart
PARIS-B / Opening on January 16th, 6—9 pm
In Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1, the second witch says, “Open the locks, whoever knocks!” With this incantation that invites the unknown, Théodore Melchior claims the permeability between worlds and urges a leap into fiction. His wooden sculptures, too, enter the stage like shady characters. Polychromatic, with abstract, indulgent, and dancing forms, they arrive accompanied by their cohort of pedestals, forming a strange, museum-like assembly. Théodore Melchior extends the narrative with texts displayed like the voice-overs of some unknown romantic knight, thus endowing his sculptures with a decidedly dramatic and human charge.
OUTDOOR
Winner of the Villa Noailles Prize in the Emerige Revelations in 2023, Morgane Ely presents an exhibition developed during her residency at Villa Noailles in Hyères , composed of 29 wood engravings and a diorama.
In autumn, MO.CO. Panacée welcomes French artist Laura Garcia-Karras for her first solo exhibition in a public institution. To prepare for this exhibition, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain invited her to spend four months in residence, allowing her to create a new body of work and immerse herself in the exhibition spaces.Beyond an initial formal interpretation, it is the affective approach that emerges most prominently in the work of Laura Garcia-Karras, where gesture takes precedence. The artist focuses on a single medium: painting, which she stretches, deconstructs, and sculpts, questioning its materiality.