Paris Photo 2023
Grand Palais Ephémère
9 - 12th November 2023
Image: 177,5 x 119 cm
Frame: 188,5 x 130 cm
The États-inversés series was initiated in 2010 by Julien Discrit. Based on a division of American geography, the artist reinterprets the process of shading in cartography, which consists of highlighting variations in terrain by reproducing fictitious sunlight on the slopes and thus producing a two-dimensional impression of relief. By inverting the conventionally used spectrum and turning these maps into black and white, Julien Discrit creates a new way of apprehending relief. He thus reverses the reading of the American territory, creating new motifs from a pre-existing mode of representation.
In the first instance, he produced a complete atlas of the American relief in two volumes. In a second phase, in 2016, he decided to make prints of some of the cities in the book by reproducing them in large format. In doing so, he added a new dimension to the work by integrating the idea of scale, which disrupts our representation of spaces and questions our ways of making the world around us intelligible.
Image: 69,8 x 46,8 inch
Frame: 74,2 x 52 inch
Inverted Sates series have been created thanks to elevation data files and show monochromatic landscapes, rivers and mountains from the United States territory. Unless here after changing the light direction and so relief shading, the artist created an inverted landscape. Valleys became crests and mountains became depressions. So instead of offering the classic bird-eye view these maps gives us an exclusive view from underneath.
Image: 130 x 102 cm
Frame: 134 x 108,8 cm
It was in the night of Elea, an ancient Greek city near Naples, that Parmenides first supposed that the moon reflected the light of the sun or that the earth was a sphere. By seeking the logic at work in nature through his observations rather than from mythological accounts, he, along with other pre-Socratic philosophers, contributed to building a new way of understanding the world.
This photograph of the sky of Elea was taken nearly 2500 years after Parmenides, by fixing a camera on a motor synchronized with the rotation of the Earth, allowing the tracking of the stars' movements and creating a perfectly still image of the celestial vault.
Ordinarily, regardless of where in the world they are taken, photographs capture sunlight reflecting on the world around us. However, in this photograph, the captured light does not come from our sun, but from thousands of distant suns.
Image: 130 x 102 cm
Frame: 134 x 108,8 cm
Image: 130 x 102 cm
Frame: 134 x 108,8 cm
av. J.-C
Image: 50 x 70 cm
Le monde forclos is a photograph in which appears the face of a child illuminated by a light coming out of a safe. The chiaroscuro lets us think that the light he discovers in the doorway is that of the day. The title invites us to consider the image as an inversion of the world, the term "forclos" meaning "locked outside".
127 x 92 cm
Signed
© Grégory Copitet
42 x 81 cm
Signed
© Grégory Copitet
" Nous avons rendez-vous chez un costumier dont l'atelier est dans un palais en hauteur. Un escalier épouse la ligne arrondie du bâtiment. L'homme coud une robe cintrée en tissu vert. J'aimerais lui en commander une mais nous n'avons pas le temps."
42 x 59 cm
Signed
© Grégory Copitet
" Il s'élançait, sautait directement en disant l'avoir déjà fait, sur un ton nonchalant. On était déjà venus à cet endroit."
42 x 59 cm
Signed
© Grégory Copitet
" La montre est à l'envers : en la retournant, je constate qu'il est déjà 9h39."
42 x 59 cm
Signed
© Grégory Copitet
"D'énormes vagues d'eau sombre et écumeuse. L'une d'elles va s'abattre sur la maison. J'essaye d'emprunter la route. Notre hôte, paniqué, a un geste maladroit qui me fait renverser ma tasse de café."
Cibachrome, Plexiglas, and Brace
Image: 180 x 120 cm (each)
The gallery will be taking part in Paris Photo 2023 with a selection of photographs by Julien Discrit, Laurent Montaron, Valérie Mréjen and Seton Smith.
Booth D06.