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Four artists were chosen through a process of nomination and then selection: Maxime Guédaly, Constantin Schalchter, Sixtine de Thé and Elliott Verdier. Each one has their own background, subjects and modus operandi. Yet there is a common trait that unites them: the first line that would have been drawn on the page of their artistic journey, the one that each of them strives not to interrupt, even if it sometimes seems to turn in on itself or pause before starting up again with renewed vigour. This line, which must be allowed to run freely, is the one that underlines what artists share: not giving up, not giving up on understanding, and in order to understand, not giving up on representing.
By what means can we construct a representation of the world that lives up to our most intimate experience of it? Since it is a question of finding the representation that formulates with clarity and a kind of evidence that the experience of the world is a complex thing, and that the paths we take are more winding than we imagine, each of the artists seeks to find their own way to trace their itinerary in conscience and freedom.
Elliott Verdier heads off into the great cold, taking the road to the distant Bering Strait and a deserted island to document a wounded territory as much as to draw his own desire for decentralisation.
Sixtine de Thé plunges into darkness with people who have lost their sight, with whom she considers, from a different perspective, what it is to see and to make images.
Constantin Schlachter makes new tools for observing infra-worlds, also searching in the night of the darkroom to bring to the surface of the paper a material of dizzying depth.
Maxime Guédaly puts the body in motion—his own and that of others, dancers and walkers—at the heart of his experience of urban and rural environments as a prelude to a renewed experience of being in the world.
Nominators
Marie Magnier, director of the gallery Les Filles du Calvaire
Marina Gadonneix, artist
Emilia Genuardi, director of the Approche art fair
Valérie Cazin, director of the Binome gallery
Audrey Hoareau, director of CRP/Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France
Audrey Illouz, curator
Anna Planas, artistic director of Paris Photo
Jordan Alves, co-director, Atelier EXB
Jean-Kenta Gauthier, gallerist
Marie Terrieux, director of FRAC Normandy
FUTURES Talents 2022, 2023, 2024 : Coline Jourdan, Pauline Hisbacq, Nolwenn Brod, Rebekka Deubner, Hélène Bellenger, Léonie Pondevie, Rebecca Topakian,
Arno Brignon, , Damien Caccia, Marc-Antoine Garnier.
Final selection made by Raphaëlle Stopin, director and Claire Tangy, President of Centre photographique Rouen Normandie
Focusing on the role of humans within society and their direct interaction with their environment, Maxime Guedaly has been building a documentary photographic archive for the past ten years. A self-taught photographer with an engineering background, he constructs his projects from the archives he has created. Selected, organized, and related according to their purpose, these images find their place in public spaces and in venues accessible to all audiences.
The formal association of several regimes of images serves as a starting point for reflection on the physical and political movements of communities engaged in society, whether they come from a cultural background linked to live performance or the associative world.
Through video, the photographer establishes a dialogue between the movement of urban and human respiration, creating a common vocabulary between two entities emerging from their inertia.
Evolving towards the fields of performance and collaborative art, the role of the artist becomes porous, straddling participation and documentation. While the question of the reception of the work remains unchanged, the artistic process is completely reexamined.
Maxime Guedaly was born in Toulouse in 1987. He is trained as an engineer and is a self-taught photographer. He trained in authorial projects at the ENSP in Arles in 2018.
