Alain WILLAUME
Frôlements de l’ombre
To 17 February
Shadows graze
Alain Willaume draws on his enigmatic body of work to create a twilight stroll inspired by the atmosphere of the Villa Pérochon. In the half-light and labyrinthine spaces of the Villa, he proposes and weaves a new reading of his polymorphous work. On the first level, vast grey territories haunted by the anxiety of a world where a few humans still remain, oscillating between threat and contemplation. The upper floor, on the other hand, is like a hushed refuge populated by melancholy shadows, creaking noises and sleepless dreams. A fierce experimenter with form, he has developed a body of work made up of enigmatic images, all of which speak of the tension and vulnerability of the world and of human beings.
“I’m more of a traveler who sometimes makes images… a watcher who assigns himself certain territories and surveys them to alarm his fellow human beings or offer them some fertile dreams or questioning.” Alain Willaume
Photography, video and set design : Alain Willaume
Music: Philippe Poirier
Texts: Gérard Haller, David Chandler, Wajdi Mouawad, Henri Michaux
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Biography
Alain Willaume has been a member of the Tendance Floue collective since 2010. His latest monograph, Coordonnées 72/18 was published by Éditions Xavier Barral (Paris) in January 2019 (nominated for the Prix Nadar the same year). Un réalisme haanté, a book of interviews with Fabien Ribéry, is published in 2022 by Arnaud Bizalion éditeur.
Rien ici qui demeure his latest multimedia exhibition/installation was presented in 2021 at Lux-scène nationale in Valence with the participation of critic and historian Michel Poivert. In 2019, he collaborated with Wajdi Mouawad, author-director and director of La Colline, théâtre national (Paris) for a photographic installation in the theater’s spaces. He won the Kodak Prize for Photographic Criticism, as well as first prize in the Portraits category of the 2011 Sony World Photography Award.
Supported by La Villa Pérochon, he is a 2024 laureate of the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.