ZOË GHERTNER - MADE YOU VANISH

PRESENTED BY CHLOÉ

For their participation at Paris Photo, Chloé is pleased to present a recent body of photographs made in collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist Zoë Ghertner. Captured over the past year, this selection of images on view reveal Ghertner’s ongoing inquiry into interdependent ecologies and the eternal femme. The works on view edit out the world so that we might encounter it again anew.

Scenes from Mexico, the American West, Hawaii, and the artist’s garden fill each frame. Settings are less diaristic than they are elemental as the natural world spills forth. Time’s passage is marked by constantly reshaping clouds, tendrils of hair, the changing size of our hands, and mushrooms creeping out of the decay. We do not control time, we are enveloped by it.

Within Ghertner’s eternity, femme bodies are normalized. The objectifying gaze to which the fairer sex has so long been subject is suspended. She reframes the conditions under which women reencounter their own image.
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11-14 nov 2021 Grand Palais Ephemere, Paris

AT THE HEART OF SCENTS

A JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF MUGLER FRAGRANCES

THE EXHIBITION

The creation of a perfume is before all a human adventure, a journey into the world of nature’s most precious raw materials.

For MUGLER, photographer Olivier Löser has captured the women and men at the origin of each scent. From Sambava in Madagascar to Kerala in India, he reveals each moment of the harvesting of the Bourbon vanilla or the sambac jasmine.

His work is at the crossroads of humanist photography and press coverage, placing the human being at the heart of the elaboration of a fragrance, recognizing traditional know-how and celebrating local cultures.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Renowned for his ethnographic shots and his photo-essays, Olivier Löser is a nature lover who travels the world in search of the perfect shot. Here he explores the conservation and relationship between man and nature.

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THE PIGMENT CHANGE - ALMUDENA ROMERO

LAUREATE OF THE BMW ART & CULTURE RESIDENCY

BMW ART & CULTURE - OFFICIAL PARTNER

Official partner of Paris Photo since 2003, BMW has created the BMW Residency to support young creation, by giving, each year, carte blanche to an emerging photographer. BMW will exhibit the ninth winner of the BMW Residency, Almudena Romero in collaboration with the Gobelins where she was in residence.

With her project The Pigment Change, Almudena Romero, winner of the 2020 BMW Residency, relies on an ecological awareness and on the use of plant materials that refers to an aesthetic of fragility, even disappearance. The Pigment Change is the consequence of the intrinsic qualities of the plant, and in particular of its exposure to light and particular wavelengths.

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ACCESS

Grand Palais Ephémère
Champ-de-Mars

Place Joffre
75007 Paris

Metro line 8: Ecole Militaire
Bus lines: 20, 80, 82, 87, 92

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