The exhibition “Our Afghan family, memories of a vanished life” d’Olivier Jobardis presented until November 24 at the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Olivier Jobard is the winner of the 14th edition of the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Photography Prize – Academy of Fine Arts (2022).
This work is a continuation of Olivier Jobard’s meeting in 2010 in Paris with Ghorban, a 13-year-old Afghan who traveled alone and clandestinely 7,000 km to flee his country and whose new life Olivier Jobard had followed and documented. Eleven years later, in the summer of 2021, the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and the life of the teenager’s entire family was turned upside down, with the repatriation of his four welcomed brothers and sisters. In France.
Between memories of a life taken away/stolen in the footsteps of the past of the members of the siblings in Afghanistan and projection into a new life to be built, this exhibition will present this double path of exile and reconstruction in a story still evolving. writing, made of geographical and temporal back and forth.
Olivier Jobard: Our Afghan family, memories of a vanished life
until November 24, 2024
Comtesse de Caen Pavilion of the Academy of Fine Arts
27, quai de Conti
75006 Paris
https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/en/pavillon-comtesse-de-caen
France
