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“It’s not so much the architecture that interests me,” Bovo says, “but how it is used and lived in.” (© Marie BOVO)
"Featuring her two new series, this monograph captures the full breadth of Marie BOVO’s work.
The French photographer captures physical spaces at dusk occupied by diverse communities, in search for their traces that suggest human presences while they are absent from the image. Marie BOVO focuses on different places of the Mediterranean basin and African coasts: inside courts, a kebab restaurant or a Romani camp in Marseille, empty apartments in Algier or open-air kitchens in Ghana.
Her photographs reveal what is hidden, what lasts in the silence. Marie BOVO’s long exposures in natural light with her large-format camera captures the most little details. Time and movement are the components with which she constructs her images and invites the viewer to examine every component. Objects disappear from one image to the other, light fades in nearly surreal tints, the photograph becomes pictorial. This permanent oscillation between past and present suggests many stories to come.
The publication coincides with a mid-career survey show at the 'Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson' in Paris, including the photographic series and films presented in the book 'Nocturnes'. The exhibition is on view through May 17." (publisher's note, © Edition Barral, 2020)
"Featuring her two new series, this monograph captures the full breadth of Marie BOVO’s work.
The French photographer captures physical spaces at dusk occupied by diverse communities, in search for their traces that suggest human presences while they are absent from the image. Marie BOVO focuses on different places of the Mediterranean basin and African coasts: inside courts, a kebab restaurant or a Romani camp in Marseille, empty apartments in Algier or open-air kitchens in Ghana.
Her photographs reveal what is hidden, what lasts in the silence. Marie BOVO’s long exposures in natural light with her large-format camera captures the most little details. Time and movement are the components with which she constructs her images and invites the viewer to examine every component. Objects disappear from one image to the other, light fades in nearly surreal tints, the photograph becomes pictorial. This permanent oscillation between past and present suggests many stories to come.
The publication coincides with a mid-career survey show at the 'Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson' in Paris, including the photographic series and films presented in the book 'Nocturnes'. The exhibition is on view through May 17." (publisher's note, © Edition Barral, 2020)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Agnes Sire, Alain Bergala
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25,5 cm., 160 pp., 119 color ills., bilingual texts: French / English