A discussion on the exhibition by Anne-Lou Buzot
Taking as his starting point the exhibition ‘La théorie de l’horizon incliné’ currently on view at the gallery, Michel Poivert will discuss contemporary uses of the archive and vernacular photography. In dialogue with Anne-Lou Buzot, the focus will gradually shift towards the horizon, and the exhibition will explore the place of ecological issues in photographic practice.

‘Photography was born in the 19th century, and very quickly impressed by its ability to faithfully reproduce reality, so much so that it was readily given evidential value. However, in photographs of the seashore, the horizon appears to be tilted… From then on, a question began to emerge in scholarly circles: could the horizon really be tilted? This was the starting point of an incongruous story that only photography can tell, and which raises questions about the very essence of this medium… A story that I have now managed to reconstruct thanks to the discovery of fragments of previously unpublished archives’.
Anne-Lou Buzot

Anne-Lou Buzot: Born in 1990, Anne-Lou Buzot is a photographer, editor and teacher at the ENS Louis-Lumière laboratory. She specialises in photochemical processes and is conducting research into plant-based photographic processes. She lives and works in Saint-Denis.

Aedes is the result of two chance encounters (a novel by Pierre Michon and Paul Monnet’s herbarium) that set Barbara Bénédicte Penn on a frantic quest for a Book – primitive and absolute – that would bring together the lost fragments of her own origins. The herbarium, with its plant traces, obsessed the artist and became the unique and precious medium on which she would unfold the phantasmagorias of her memories and her imagination: a “paper sanctuary” where plants, animals and minerals form a living chaos.

Barbara Bénédicte Penn, born in Montreal in 1968, spent her childhood and adolescence in Brittany. She obtained a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Rennes in 1992, and later trained in photography through various workshops and Masterclasses. She lives and works in Paris as a visual artist and archivist.