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Arno Brignon, for instance, utilises outdated analogue films – products of a past industry – and in doing so entrusts his photographic act to the erosion of the film, leaving room for the work of time. Damien Caccia thwarts the permanence of the photographic medium by the systematic alteration of the recorded image, in experimental works created with the aid of tools such a portable scanner. Marc-Antoine Garnier probes the two dimensional nature of the photograph, asking ‘Is it photography?’ while folding, assembling, piercing and brading paper, pushing our understanding of surfaces into new realms. And finally, in Nina Medioni’s work, the relationship between the photographed and the photographer is constantly reassessed, with the camera becoming a tool to record the people she encounters and the territories through which she passes.
Arno Brignon, for instance, utilises outdated analogue films – products of a past industry – and in doing so entrusts his photographic act to the erosion of the film, leaving room for the work of time. Damien Caccia thwarts the permanence of the photographic medium by the systematic alteration of the recorded image, in experimental works created with the aid of tools such a portable scanner. Marc-Antoine Garnier probes the two dimensional nature of the photograph, asking ‘Is it photography?’ while folding, assembling, piercing and brading paper, pushing our understanding of surfaces into new realms. And finally, in Nina Medioni’s work, the relationship between the photographed and the photographer is constantly reassessed, with the camera becoming a tool to record the people she encounters and the territories through which she passes.
Arno Brignon (b. 1976) lives and works in Toulouse. With a background as an educator in underprivileged neighbourhoods, he later devoted himself fully to photography, joining the Signatures agency in 2013. Brignon’s work questions the place of man in the world, exploring ideas of territory and memory through a poetic photographic approach. He divides his time between teaching, residency programmes, personal research and assignments for various media outlets. Brignon’s images are regularly exhibited both domestically and internationally, whilst his works is found in a series of private and public collections. Thus far, he has published four books Ancrages, D'après une histoire vraie, La formacion de las olas, and Terre et Territoire #1.
Damien Caccia (b. 1989) studied at the École supérieure d’arts des Rocailles, and then at the École Supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes. His creative approach is based on narration: viewers are drawn into a fictional visual world, playing their own role in its creation. Using various materials – acrylic paint on glass, concrete, plaster, bleached tarps and fabrics – Caccia works at the frontiers of abstraction, with light, shape and colour offering rhythm to his creations. A co-founder of Grande Surface, an artist-run space in Brussels, his work has been exhibited by a range of institutions in France and Belgium.
Marc-Antoine Garnier (b. 1989) is a French photographer and visual artist, who graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’art et Design Le Havre-Rouen. In recent years, he has presented his works in numerous exhibitions. His pieces have been collected by the FRAC Normandie-Rouen, as well as several art libraries in France. Garnier’s research finds particular appreciation in Japan, where he exhibited at the Nishieda Foundation as part of the Nuit Blanche de Kyoto in 2017, and at the Tezukayama Gallery in 2016.
Nina Medioni (b. 1991) lives and works in Marseille. In 2015, After graduating with an MA in Literature, she enrolled at the National School of Photography in Arles. Here, she developed an interest in documentary photography; in the image as a tool to meet the ‘other’. In 2019, Medioni spent several months with her Jewish Orthodox family in Tel Aviv, marking the start of her series, The Veil. The project has since been exhibited in both France and Israel. In 2022, she began the Un été au Prépaou series, which charts her encounter with a working-class neighbourhood in the city of Istres. She is currently editing her first film, Le Chalet, which studies the complexities of a neighbourhood surrounding her uncle's house – a seemingly misplaced cottage in the Parisian cityscape.
website: nina-medioni.com
Instagram: @ninamedioni
