Rémy Lidereau »
Trompe-l'oeil
Exhibition: 21 Sep – 1 Dec 2007
Galerie Paul Frèches
48, rue de Montmorency
75003 Paris
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First Parisian exhibition of Remy Lidereau (1979-), the exhibition features a selection of photographs dragged out of a series named by a title which generates inevitably questions, investigations, and attempts on decoding the image : Trompe-l'œil. Urban set, semi-urban or landscapes : these sites, from which emanates a feeling of singularity, are a pretext to the reconstruction of a misleading reality and, inversely, to the misleading reconstruction of this reality. Remy Lidereau proposes to see the world through an atypical look, using contemporary photography's codes, while revolving around one of the aesthetic photography's original problematic : its approach of reality. Trompe-l'œil ? It is only in 2006 that Remy Lidereau gave this title to this series of photographs, mainly completed between 2003 and 2004. A series depicting the city, its suburbs, the countryside, Trompe-l'œil proposes perceptive bits, realised with a large-framed camera, conferring high precision to the image. This last one - after being scanned - is digitally touched up in a sporadic and non-systematic way, method allowing the photographer to make his first impression and a final retranscription coincide in two dimensions, creating then two rocking points between reality and fiction were doubt remains. Misleading souvenir / misleading image, strangeness of real and virtual reality, these echo games, this glide, constitute the principal object of the series Trompe-l'œil. Remy Lidereau's photographs mark with an original print the relative questioning to the potentialities of the medium, through a crop blurring the track. Here, every photograph is both likely to convince or dissuade us of the idea of reality in the image, or, at least, to question it. 'What interrupts our sight, for a short instance, is the eruption of fiction in the universe which, because of what we can call our daily blindness, we do not know how to pay attention.' This is not a wall, L'œil ébloui, Georges Perec, 1981 A work that provokes an increasing interest October 2007 Slick art fair, Paris July 2007 Shot & Go, a vision of today's international photography, San Servolo, Venice. Curator: Raffaele Gavarro (MACRO, Rome). 2007 Trompe-l'œil, festival Photo Divers, City of Levallois, France. Artistic director: Paul Frèches. 2005-2007 ReGeneration, 50 photographes de demain, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne/ Aperture Foundation, New York/ The Art Institute, Boston (...) : touring exhibition. 2007-2008 : Paul Frèches Gallery proposes a Chinese season, which has started already with its participation to the new Shanghai Art Fair (SH Contemporary) in September and will continue during winter with the exhibitions of Liu Jianhua (December - February, 2008) and Xiang Liqing (February - April, 2008). In addition, a cycle of exhibitions made by young curators will start in 2008 with an exhibition curated by Isabelle Lenormand (June-July).