PARIS PHOTO 2024
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PARIS PHOTO 2024
JIANG ZHI, HECTOR CASTELLS MATUTANO, BAPTISTE RABICHON
OCT 06th - OCT 10TH, 2024
Grand palais, paris, france
Booth b17
In the iconic Love Letters series (2011-2014) dedicated to the memory of his deceased wife, Jiang Zhi sets living flowers on fire, and photographs the moment when petals and flames coexist in the equanimity of beauty and suffering. The artist staged a visceral way to mourn, to imagine suffering, and to create a fleeting yet perpetual moment suspended between destruction and rebirth, agony and sweet melancholy.
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Born in 1971 in Yuanjiang, Hunan, China, Jiang Zhi graduated from China Academy of Art in 1995. Jiang works with a wide range of media, including photography, painting, video, and installation. Fiction and poetry have also been an important part of his artistic output. Consistently engaging with contemporary social and cultural issues, Jiang consciously positions himself at the intersection of poetics and sociology, while weaving mundane social and personal experiences into his works.
As one of the most versatile Chinese artists of his generation, Jiang Zhi has had two major solo retrospectives at OCAT Shenzhen (2016) and Times Museum in Guangzhou (2012). His work has also been exhibited by international institutions and biennials, including “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” (Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, 2017), the 9th Shanghai Biennial (Shanghai Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2012), the 4th Guangzhou Triennial (Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China, 2012), Beijing Today Art Museum “The First Today’s Documents (2007 ), “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China” (ICP and Asia Society, New York, USA, 2004), “Zone of Urgency”, the 50th Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Italy, 2003), and the 4th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, South Korea, 2002). Jiang was awarded the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) in 2000, the Academic Award of Reshaping History (Chinart from 2000 to 2009) in 2010, and the Credit Suisse Today Art Award in 2012.
HECTOR CASTELLS MATUTANO
After collecting or producing images (archives, slides, photographic journals), Hector Castells Matutano gently transmutes them, without constraint, into new narratives and visual experiences. Through collage, installation, and coloring, these images are brought to be reconsidered, as if illuminated by a light they previously lacked. This process sometimes evolves the raw material toward an almost psychedelic abstraction, while at other times it challenges its status as a documentary image and our own relationship with otherness. Described by him as an expanded photographic practice, his work shifts from documentary to abstract, from two-dimensional image to object, and from object to performance, taking photography into new territories.
Hector Castells-Matutano is a multimedia artist, musician, performer and filmmaker born in Barcelona in 1978. After studing in biology at Barcelona’s Universitat Autónoma, he graduated a Master’s degree in Sculpture at the Royal College of Arts, a sensitive diversity of approaches that can be seen throughout his work. He has exhibited in numerous institutions and galleries. He now lives and works in Paris.
In the Series 17ème by Baptiste Rabichon, a life-size silhouette “Alice” appears like an opaline spectrum combined to an extravagant flora. The floral motifs that characterize this series are created from real flowers picked by the artist during his walks, sometimes mixed with scans, then projected onto the photosensitive paper.
The sunlight of the city gardens shines in and the intimacy of the photo lab where the artist tries to combine imprint and representation. Body and objects are marked by a dichotomy between darkness and light, interior and exterior, which also translates two essential phases of his work: the isolation of the darkroom and the a many bright places where the artist for collect his visual notes translating the correlations between chemistry and the computer, between the life of the artist and his laboratory.
Born in Montpellier in 1987, Baptiste Rabichon lives and works in Paris. After viticulture and oenology studies, he went to ENSA Dijon in 2009, to ENSBA Lyon in 2011 and finally to ENSBA Paris in 2012. In 2015 he joined the National Studio for Contemporary Arts (Le Fresnoy) from which he graduated in 2017 with honors from the jury. He was the recipient of the 2017 BMW residency and participated in the 63th edition of the Salon de Montrouge.