BEFORE SOMETHING NEW
Une exposition personnelle de Isabelle LE MINH.
Exhibition September 7 – October 12 2019 Opening on Saturday September 7 Isabelle LE MINH
Before Something New
words, symbols, and cultural codes in a resolutely conceptual and polysemic vein. Homages and references to artists and art theorists, to chemical procedures, shooting equipment, and new technological media all serve as milestones punctuating this photographic exploration.
In the 1990s, Isabelle Le Minh left her job as a patent engineer in Berlin to devote herself to photography. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles, she now teaches at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen. Winner of the artist’s book reve- lation prize awarded by the ADAGP in 2016 and a resident of the Villa Kujoyama in 2019, she has notably shown her work at Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Paris Photo, the Centre photographique d’île de France, La Maison Rouge, FRAC Normandie Rouen, the Musée des beaux arts de Mulhouse, MOCAK in Krakow, and the Goethe Institute in Paris.
Her work is present in numerous public and private collections including those of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, FRAC Normandie Rouen, FRAC Grand Large – Hauts de France, Neuflize OBC in France, the Andra Spallart Collection in Vienna, the DZ Bank in Frankfurt, the 21c Museum in Louisville, and Dorfman Projects in New York.
Avec le soutien aux galeries / publication du Centre national des arts plastiques
In this month of September, the Galerie Chris- tophe Gaillard is pleased to present a solo exhi- bition by Isabelle Le Minh, the third since embar- king on its collaboration with the artist in 2009.
For over a decade now, Isabelle Le Minh has questioned the nature of images, their subjects, habitual practices, theoretical fundaments, foun- ding myths, and history. The development of di- gital photography and the presumed obsoles- cence of film have raised further questions as to the very essence of photography.
Through her multifaceted and polysemic work, not devoid of humour, Isabelle Le Minh probes the most diverse fields pertaining to photogra- phy: its subjects, practices, techniques, history, and theoretical underpinnings. Drawing on cita- tion or reappropriation, her artworks play with
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The exhibition will provide the occasion to discover the first monograph by the artist, entitled After Photography & Beyond, with texts by Julie Jones (photography historian), Joan Fontcuberta (artist and author of many theo- retical texts on photography), Florian Ebner (chief curator of the photogra- phy department of the Centre Pompidou), and Véronique Souben (director of the FRAC Normandie Rouen). This publication enjoyed the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques and will be published by Éditions Dilecta.