The House Gallery Hélène Aziza presents the exhibition of Gérard Uferas : A day at the museum until November 20, 2024. It is presented as follows.
Over the past decades, museums have taken an increasingly important place in our societies and our collective imagination, sparking massive interest in Art and attracting an increasingly young audience. The modern museum has become a place where concerts and performances, conferences and educational programs come together. Cultural tourism attracts millions of visitors who come to learn there or simply to stroll, to be ecstatic and even sometimes… to fall asleep there exhausted.
Gérard Uféras has been practicing his curiosity there since the age of twelve when, in the company of two friends, all three living in the suburbs, they decided to discover Paris through its museums. This uninterrupted practice of museums is at the origin of his passion for the visual arts which years later led him to photography and enriched his outlook.
In this project, Gérard Uféras acts as an artist, anthropologist and sociologist at the same time. He observes, records and analyzes what we see there with subtlety and humor. The study carried out by Gérard Uféras is much more than an intelligent and witty story about visitors to very diverse museums, it offers each of us the opportunity to see ourselves in one piece and to reflect on our own relationship to art.
Carried out since 2016, in Paris in most of its museums but also in New York, Moscow, London, Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Florence, Athens, Tel Aviv, Bern, Washington, etc. this work is a “Work in Progress”
Gérard Uferas
From 1984, he began a regular collaboration with the newspaper Libération, for which he produced numerous reports and which organized his first exhibition. He then published regularly in the national and international press… He participated in the creation of the Vu agency in 1986. Alongside photojournalism, he worked as a portraitist, produced advertising campaigns, fashion series, and pursued research personal which led him to exhibit in many countries. His work has been awarded numerous times and is part of the collections of the European House of Photography in Paris, the National Fund for Contemporary Art, the Central Union of Decorative Arts, the National Library of France, the National Gallery in London, the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne, the Salzburg Festival in Austria, the Henkel collection in Germany, the House of Photography in Moscow…In 2024 all of his work will enter the collections of the MPP, Heritage and Photography Media Library which preserves the State’s photographic heritage. It thus joins the work of Willy Ronis who was his friend and those of his youthful wonders: André Kertesz and Jacques-Henri Lartigue.
House Gallery Hélène Aziza
19 rue Paul Fort
75014 Paris
Until Wednesday November 20, 2024
Every day from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
