Anne-Lise Broyer exhibits her works at the Delacroix gallery of the French Institute of Tangier
It is at the Galerie Delacroix that the artist photographer, Anne-Lise Broyer offers to see her works on the Mediterranean from Friday July 5 to October 5, 2024. Entitled ” Is this where we lived?is a journey through time (past and present) and through intimate and political memories around the Mediterranean.
These images made of softness, shadow, ink and talc replay a story whose imprint is on the shores of this sea. A true dive into the Mediterranean sources, this work still in progress, constructed like a song, an elegy, attempts to make visible a Mediterranean wound and creates a back and forth between disaster and reconstruction.
A trip to the Mediterranean today is not a journey of peace. To embark on it is also to take the measure of a reality. These photographs are like unexpected visions that strike the eye. They would like to inscribe themselves permanently in the memory, in a shock.
This series received support for documentary photography from the National Center for Plastic Arts (CNAP).
Who is Anne-Lise Broyer?
Anne-Lise Broyer was born in 1975. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Atelier National de Recherches Typographiques, Anne-Lise Broyer is situated in a unique practice of photography, willingly borrowing the paths of graphic design, drawing and writing.
This hybridization leads her in particular to question the relationship that photography has with other arts and especially with literature. In this same logic of dialogue, she also questions the areas of friction and intersection between graphite drawing and silver photography in order to reach a zone of confusion in perception. By marrying these two gestures, by connecting the eye to the hand, a new language is invented by creating visual situations that continually refer to the photographic image and its technical history.
Literature is a constant for Anne-Lise Broyer. She offers a photographic writing between art, philosophy and literature. In “Au Roi du bois” she brings back to life Bataille, Faulkner, Michon and many others in the rustling of bark, the undergrowth, the landscapes that the artist captured at the pace of journeys guided by her readings. In this series, the plant has its place and responds to the refined beauty of the exhibition venue, the Jardin François, whose colors match the tones and patterns of the photographic compositions. This remarkable garden, like the works, is to be admired with a certain slowness, between literary and landscape wandering.
Her works are published by Filigranes, Nonpareilles, Verdier and now Loco. She exhibits regularly in France and abroad.
Nonpareilles editions, published by Verdier and Loco. She exhibits regularly in France and abroad.
