Grégoire ELOY
Third nature

From 18 April
To 31 May

Guest of honor

From the glaciers of the Pyrenees to the foreshore of Finistère, the exhibition presents photographer Grégoire Eloy’s photographic exploration of geological, forest and seascapes over the last ten years. Climbing
the glacier on skis, spending the night in the forest or diving with his camera, Grégoire Eloy shares with us an immersive experience of the natural landscape, lived like an initiatory rite. A way for the photographer to enter into the intimacy of the landscape.
At the crossroads of documentary and experimentation, Grégoire Eloy’s work mixes scales (from satellite photos to scanning microscopes) and techniques (documentary photography, photograms, cartography,
scientific imagery…). In dialogue with scientists of matter and life, he seeks to understand the formation and evolution of matter and our environment.
It is with what anthropologists call the “third nature”, that which manages to exist despite the degradation of the conditions of its subsistence, that Grégoire Eloy now invites us to collaborate, in order to weave a new imaginary of the living and new links with beings and things.

This exhibition was co-produced with Les Champs Libres in Rennes and is accompanied by a book published by Textuel with text by Michel Poivert.

At the art center, Grégoire Eloy will present an exhibition combining 7 series: La Faille, Les Deniquoiseaux, L’Aube, De Glace, Aster, L’Estran and La Parcelle.

Practical info

Exhibition from April 18 to May 31 at La Villa Pérochon
Tuesday to Saturday, 1:30 to 6:30 pm, closed on public holidays
FREE ADMISSION
Opening Friday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.

Exceptional opening

sunday april 19, 2 to 6 p.m.
eloy portrait

Biography

Grégoire Eloy began his career as an assistant to Stanley Greene, and went on to develop his own documentary photography. For 10 years, he traveled in Eastern Europe and Central Asia for long-term projects on the Soviet legacy. Over the years, his work has evolved into a more intimate practice of exploring new territories (geographical, scientific, imaginary), enriched by a formal freedom based on experimentation: installations, book-objects, outdoor photograms, silver contact prints on computer screens. His series are permeated by themes of trace, absence and the invisible.
Since 2010, he has focused his research on the scientific universe and our relationship with the environment and the wild through Artist Residencies in natural environments. He is the winner of the Bourse du Talent 2004, the Prix Niépce 2021 and the Grand Commission Photojournalisme du Ministère de la Culture 2022 (Radioscopie de la France).
He has been a member of the Tendance Floue collective since 2016.

Grégoire Eloy website / Tendance Floue website

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