In Situ – fabienne leclerc
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
"Comme le jour se fait lorsque la nuit s’en va"
© Marc Domage, courtesy of the In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris
Filmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (b. 1969, Beirut) weave thematic, conceptual, and formal connections between photographs, video installations, fiction or documentary films. Self-taught, they became filmmakers and visual artists out of necessity in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil wars. Their highly personal research leads them to explore the realm of the visible and the absence, fostering a fascinating back-and-forth between life and fiction. For over 15 years, their films as well as their works, produced from personal or political documents, elaborate narratives about stories kept secret in the face of dominant history.
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige build their work on the production of knowledge, the rewriting of history, the construction of imaginaries, but also on the modalities of contemporary narration by drawing on the experience of their own country while transcending its borders. The investigative process they employ, their questioning of territory, both geographical and individual, lend their work a particular aesthetic.
Their works account for the complexity of situations to shift perspective and interrogate both the division of today’s world and the contemporary stakes of the image.
From April 28th to July 20th, 2024
(The gallery will be open until 7pm on Sunday)
Rendez-Vous
Sunday 26 May 2024 at 2:00 pm
Meeting with the artists
Sunday 26 May 2024 at 5:00 pm
Sound performance
93230 Romainville, France 01 53 79 06 12 www.insituparis.fr
The gallery
In Situ, created by Fabienne Leclerc in 2001, began by partnering with galleries on Rue Louise Weiss in the 13th arrondissement. After 7 years in the 6th arrondissement, the gallery then moved to the Marais in November 2013, and later to the Stalingrad neighborhood in January 2017.
Since October 2019, In Situ has relocated to a new space in Romainville, alongside galleries Air de Paris, Jocelyn Wolff, Vincent Sator, as well as the association Jeune Création, the FRAC Île-de-France, and the Fondation Fiminco.
In Situ - fabienne leclerc aims to promote young artists from the French and international scenes, as well as support projects by more established artists.
Gallery artists
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Andrea Blum, Lynne Cohen - Estate, Patrick Corillon, Martin Dammann, Marina De Caro, Mark Dion, Lars Fredrikson - Estate, Meschac Gaba, Daniele Genadry, joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Amir Nave, Haifeng Ni, Otobong Nkanga, Constance Nouvel, Florence Paradeis, Vivien Roubaud, The Blue Noses, Laurent Tixador, Patrick Tosani, Patrick van Caeckenbergh, Marcel van Eeden, We Are The Painters, Dominique Zinkpè
Galerie sélectionnée par Matthieu Lelièvre
