Ceysson & Bénétière
PVL - Aurélie Pétrel , France
Aurélie Pétrel, Prise de vue latente 1132, 2020, impression jet d’encre sur papier baryté, 42 x 60 cm, © Aurélie Pétrel, courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière
Aurélie Pétrel's work, including in these walls, is more like sculptures or installations designed for specific places and situations than photographs in the traditional sense. The images are printed on unconventional supports like wood, metal or glass, they are fragmented and rearranged in space. They are subjected to a process of abstraction that attacks their power of representation. So much so that one could conclude that Aurélie Pétrel is iconoclastic, or even photophobic. This would be to ignore the purely photographic basis of her work. But one would be excused since this is the first time since her first solo exhibition 10 years ago that she is showing the prints she calls latent shots and which, always in the precise lexicon of her work, are the material of the activations that were presented until then.
Aurélie Pétrel's method consists in opening herself to chance by refusing to control her means. This method, one does not suspect it so much her work of sculpture or photographic installation seems, on the contrary, mastered. It is from this openness to diversity and chance, in a word, to the unknown, that each of these new images is born. Isolated, many of them astonish, in the strong sense of the word, and this photographic astonishment is reinforced by the collective apprehension that this exhibition offers, for the first time. The cryptophotographer that was Aurélie Pétrel is unmasked: 10 years after her first solo exhibition, 20 years after her debut, it is the birth of a true, and great, photographer that we are witnessing today.
Étienne Hatt
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Rendez-Vous
Saturday 5 June 2021 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
Vernissage PVL – Aurélie Pétrel
75004 Paris, France +33 (0) 1 42 77 08 22 www.ceyssonbenetiere.com/fr/home
The gallery
Founded in Saint-Étienne in 2006 by François Ceysson and Loïc Bénétière, the Ceysson & Bénétière gallery has developed its locations in Luxembourg, Paris and New York.
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Gallery artists
Trudy Benson • Robert Brandy • Pierre Buraglio • Denis Castellas • Franck Chalendard • Max Charvolen • Mounir Fatmi • Jesse Willenbring • ORLAN • Daniel Firman • Christian Floquet • Joe Fyfe • Nancy Graves • Mitja Tušek • Rémy Jacquier • Sadie Laska • Lauren Luloff • Jean Messagier • Aurélie Pétrel • Jean-Michel Meurice • Nicolas Momein • Alexander Nolan • Ronald Ophuis • Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini • Roland Quetsch • Wallace Whitney • Nam Tchun Mo • Lionel Sabatté • Tania Mouraud • Bernar Venet
