Duane Michals / Arthur Tress / Juliette Bates
Fictions
23.04 – 12.07.2014
Wednesday, april 30th, 2014, from 6 pm to 9 pm

For this spring exhibition, the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is delighted to present the works of three photographers: Duane Michals, Arthur Tress and Juliette Bates. Two historic figures of American photography and a newcomer, united by their poetic vision of a reality staged and transformed by photography.

Juliette Bates (France, *1983)
During her participation to the PHPA prize in 2013, Juliette Bates won the Special Jury Prize with her piece The Swan. She came to photography after graduating with a Master degree in Art History, specialized in photography and the theme of carnival and freaks in the late nineteenth century. In her series Histoires Naturelles, a female figure dressed in black velvet invites us into a cabinet of curiosities where birds, insects and skull are staged and question the fragility of the human condition and our relationship to nature. A strange fairy tale where photography, like the art of taxidermy, tries to preserve the passing of time.