Géraldine Lay, Kyoto, 2017, 2017
Courtesy: ©Géraldine Lay Galerie Le Réverbère
Pigment printing on Canson Prestige paper, Atelier Sunghee Lee, Arles Laminated on Dibond, solid oak frame and museum glass
Pigment printing on Canson Prestige paper, Atelier Sunghee Lee, Arles Laminated on Dibond, solid oak frame and museum glass
Dimensioni / Size: 45 x 66 cm
Edizione / Edition: 4 / 10
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Anne Cornu about Géraldine Lay
“Four Autumns, 2016-2019”
In 2016, the French Institute and the city of Lyon grant a residency grant in Japan. Géraldine creates a series there that constitutes a new stage in its explorations of urban spaces and in the questioning of urban humanity, a series built instinctively at random encounters.
The artist will make four stays in Japan. During the first trip, she photographs little and only understands that on his return looking at the contact sheets what Japan has strange and elusive. She leaves for three stays of three weeks in three years without
the strangeness of the country disappears. Like Nicolas Bouvier in the «Japanese Chronicles», Géraldine Lay notes that “the people of this country used to live like today.
The photographed individuals appear entangled in the meshes of a
scenery.
The artist first mentally apprehends the territories she has chosen before
photograph. She experiences the light, the atmosphere… Impregnation more than locating, she instils intimacy in the heart of anonymity. As she travels on foot – she
walks much - she grasps lives in the mystery of their daily existence. A look, an expression, an abandoned object, contrasts, shadows, shadows buildings more or less abandoned, more or less graffiti, beings in motion or occupied with an inner thought… the photographs in the series make the viewer travel in a Japan violently real and yet elusive.
Géraldine Lay stops in the marginal places, in the cities of medium importance in
around Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kanazawa as well as in the prefectures of
Kansai and Chubu. She agrees to confront her imagination with that of a people who
built on a dangerous nature and which, under the influence of Shinto and Buddhism,
has integrated ghosts, metamorphoses and spirits into her daily life. Géraldine Lay
does not try to understand or explain. She loves surprises and is enriched by experiencing strangeness.At a time of standardised universality, Géraldine Lay’s photographs reaffirm both the permanence of singular individualities and the resistance of identities collective.
Anne Cornu about Géraldine Lay
“Four Autumns, 2016-2019”
In 2016, the French Institute and the city of Lyon grant a residency grant in Japan. Géraldine creates a series there that constitutes a new stage in its explorations of urban spaces and in the questioning of urban humanity, a series built instinctively at random encounters.
The artist will make four stays in Japan. During the first trip, she photographs little and only understands that on his return looking at the contact sheets what Japan has strange and elusive. She leaves for three stays of three weeks in three years without
the strangeness of the country disappears. Like Nicolas Bouvier in the «Japanese Chronicles», Géraldine Lay notes that “the people of this country used to live like today.
The photographed individuals appear entangled in the meshes of a
scenery.
The artist first mentally apprehends the territories she has chosen before
photograph. She experiences the light, the atmosphere… Impregnation more than locating, she instils intimacy in the heart of anonymity. As she travels on foot – she
walks much - she grasps lives in the mystery of their daily existence. A look, an expression, an abandoned object, contrasts, shadows, shadows buildings more or less abandoned, more or less graffiti, beings in motion or occupied with an inner thought… the photographs in the series make the viewer travel in a Japan violently real and yet elusive.
Géraldine Lay stops in the marginal places, in the cities of medium importance in
around Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kanazawa as well as in the prefectures of
Kansai and Chubu. She agrees to confront her imagination with that of a people who
built on a dangerous nature and which, under the influence of Shinto and Buddhism,
has integrated ghosts, metamorphoses and spirits into her daily life. Géraldine Lay
does not try to understand or explain. She loves surprises and is enriched by experiencing strangeness.At a time of standardised universality, Géraldine Lay’s photographs reaffirm both the permanence of singular individualities and the resistance of identities collective.
Géraldine Lay
France @ France
https://www.geraldinelay.com
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