Baudouin Square presents until March 8 an exhibition of landscapes of Kate Barry titled Interstices. It is accompanied by this text:
Everything would have led photographer Kate Barry to light, to glitter, to ease. Within an advantageous family context, she “made” her reputation with prestigious models (French pop stars, actresses, famous models). In the early 2000s, Kate Barry was a recognized portrait painter and an accomplished fashion photographer. Since 2002, she has worked to overcome this rigid framework which confines and limits her. The landscape becomes her new “playground”, her territory of intimate expression, the path through which she can express her sensitivity and her talent.
From her first photographic attempts in Brittany in the years 1995-1996, Kate Barry established a photographic style that is unique to her: confinement, constraint, stripped settings almost to the point of ruin. From 2002, this writing unfolds: the landscape and the ruin, the residual trace of plants in an architecture in a state of abandonment, melancholy, heavy atmospheres. From then on, Kate Barry pursued her career as a commissioned photographer and her personal research into landscape. But of a singular landscape, on a human scale, far from the contemplative panorama or complacency.
Throughout her travels, sometimes accompanied by the globe-trotting writer Jean Rolin to the four corners of the world (Jordan, United States, India… Dinard), Kate Barry accumulates landscapes, pieces of road, leaden skies, abandoned architectures, fragile plants finding the path of light in the heart of concrete,… Marie Darrieussecq will talk about third landscapes.
-While Kate Barry’s collection has been preserved by the Nicéphore Niépce museum since 2021, the Interstices exhibition aims to rediscover the landscape work of Kate Barry, which she exhibited little during her lifetime and that the exhibitions “The Habit of Being” (Arles, 2017) and “My Own Space” (Nicéphore Niépce museum, Chalon-sur-Saône, 2023) did not than touch.
Kate Barry and the landscape: Interstices
January 10 – March 8, 2025
Baudouin square
121 rue de Ménilmontant
75020 Paris
www.pavilloncarredebaudouin.fr
