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Volta, in Portuguese, mean all at once and among other things around, return, stroll, ride, but also change. The photographs by Gabrielle Duplantier seem to echo this word : roaming and erratic, crossed by intriguing figures, delicately anchored between reality and fiction. These wanderings always bring her back to homelands and loved ones, and her pictures, bathed both in twilight and sunlight, are so many enigmas that link people and places.
Gabrielle Duplantier seems to practice photography like a horsewoman, a swordswoman, a dancer, in other words with lots of allure, wind in her hair, staring straight ahead, her movements loose and lively.
-- Quoted from the preface by Maylis de Kerangal
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Publisher : Editions Lamaindonne
2014 and 2021
Dimensions : 21 x 26.7 cm
128 pages, 95 b&w photographs
2014 and 2021
Dimensions : 21 x 26.7 cm
128 pages, 95 b&w photographs
about Gabrielle Duplantier
Gabrielle Duplantier is a French photographer born in 1978.
After studying Fine Arts and Art History, she started working on her own as a photographer. Her work is inspired by close territories, nature and portraits. From often uneven shots to experiments in the darkroom, she brings back images where the power of forms, a memory of a painter’s apprenticeship, is combined with the fragility of figures.
After studying Fine Arts and Art History, she started working on her own as a photographer. Her work is inspired by close territories, nature and portraits. From often uneven shots to experiments in the darkroom, she brings back images where the power of forms, a memory of a painter’s apprenticeship, is combined with the fragility of figures.
Suspended movements, organic landscapes, twilight moments, inhabited portraits of women or children, Gabrielle continues to assert, anxiously and obstinately, her point of view as a subject, less attached to freezing reality than to claiming a right to see it.
She has published two books with Lamaindonne, Volta (2014) and Terres Basses (2018).
She has published two books with Lamaindonne, Volta (2014) and Terres Basses (2018).
Gabrielle and her photographs. All of them are inspired by a delicacy and by a brutal force, a fieriness and a grace, something that the night competes with both the demonic and the candour. Gabrielle owes something to the mist and the glow, to the oak and the reed, to the landscape and the phantasmagoria. To the granite of desires and the sand of life. In her book Volta, with a preface by Maylis de Kerangal, her great art is assembled like a path of rain, of ferns, of women from another time, of countries and more countries, of things seen unless they are the sole fruit of the powder of a moment.
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Publisher : Editions Lamaindonne
2014 (1st edition)
Dimensions : 21 x 26.7 cm
128 pages, 95 b&w photographs
book signed
2014 (1st edition)
Dimensions : 21 x 26.7 cm
128 pages, 95 b&w photographs
book signed