Aurore BAGARRY* – Sitdown

Aurore BAGARRY

La mer de glace, Crevasses, Aurore Bagarry, Glaciers, galerie Sit Down — La mer de glace, Crevasses, 2016 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

Glaciers de la Charpoua, du Moine et du Tacul, Aurore Bagarry, Glaciers, galerie Sit Down — Glaciers de la Charpoua, du Moine et du Tacul, 2016 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

Glacier du Tour (III), vallée de Chamonix, France, Aurore Bagarry, Glaciers, galerie Sit Down — Glacier du Tour (III), vallée de Chamonix, France, 2012 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

Aurore BAGARRY, Glacier de l’A Neuve © galerie Sit Down

Glacier du Mont Blanc, Aurore Bagarry, Glaciers, galerie Sit Down — Glacier du Mont Blanc, 2017 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

This series of seventy six prints composes a photographic inventory of the glaciers of the Mont Blanc massif in France conducted from 2012 to 2017 by Aurore Bagarry.
This young photographer, a graduate of the Gobelins and the Arles School of Photography, has carried out a descriptive and poetic project to survey the intricacies and singularities of Alpine glaciers.
These images, infused with a documentary style, reflect by its aesthetic concerns, a rereading of the photographs of explorations of the nineteenth century.
It is an act that reveals the beauty and fragility of these places and sounds the alarm on the disappearance that threatens them.

Série Roches, Plage des Curés, Plestin-les-Grèves, Côtes-d’Armor, 2016-2020 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série Roches, Anse de Brehec, Plouha, Côtes-d’Armor, 2016-2020 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série Roches, Hoe Point, Praa Sands, Cornwall, 2016-2020 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série Roches, Maer Cliff, Bude, Cornwall, 2016-2020 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série Roches, Ladram Bay, Sidmouth, Devon, 2016-2020 © Aurore Bagarry courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série-Roche-Four à Boulets-Fréhel-Côtes d’Armor-2016-2020-©Aurore-Barry-courtesy-galerie-Sit-Down

Roches, Aurore Bagarry’s new photographic project, revolves around research on water as an imprint on the landscape and on the notion of a natural border. Her field of investigation goes from the French northern shores to those of the south of England which face each other. The artist continues his approach of photographic atlas started with the series Glaciers and offers us a personal reading of the landscapes of La Manche through an inventory of the forms resulting from the slow erosion of the coastline.

Roches received the support of the Drac Bretagne (Aide Individuelle à la Création) in 2017 and that of the art center GwinZegal, Guingamp in 2019.

Exhibitions

2022

Language of landscape (group show)

Art Paris (Grand Palais Ephémère)

04.07.2022 – 04.10.2022

2021

Roches

SIT DOWN gallery

06.03.2021 – 06.06.2021

2018

Glaciers

Paris Photo FAIR

08.11.2018 – 11.11.2018

Glaciers

Salon Photo Doc. Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris

04.05.2018 – 06.05.2018

2017

Glaciers

SIT DOWN gallery

24.10.2017 – 02.12.2017

2015

Glaciers

SIT DOWN gallery

28.05.2015 – 24.06.2015

Biography

French photographer and video artist, born in 1982 in Le Mans, France, Aurore Bagarry graduated in 2004 from the Gobelins School, Paris, and in 2008 from the National School of Photography in Arles with commendations
Her work revolves around research on water as a form and as an imprint on a landscape and on the notion of natural borders. How photography, by its transparent nature, can make the variations in water sensitive, suggest its complexity? By the logic of photographic atlas and the practice of walking, she offers a personal reading of the landscape with an inventory of the forms of water, sometimes fragile although monumental (Glaçiers 2012-2018) or the imperceptible fruit of a slow erosion (Roches 2016-2020).

Winner in 2020 of the Regards sur le Grand Paris #4 commissioned by the CNAP and the Ateliers Médicis, Aurore Bagarry discovers the ancient oceans and reveals the forms of water that have shaped the Parisian basin through waves of sedimentation, to the point of structuring our forms of life and our gaze through the ages.

Press

2017
Le Temps, January 28th
Radio Télévision Suisse, interview, February 1st

2016
L’intervalle, interview, November 11th

2015
L’Alpe n°71, December
Géants, le spectacle de la montagne, interview, September
Libération, August 20th and November 17th, interview
Le Figaro, June 30th
Radio Canada, June
Le Parisien, interview, May 25th
Télérama, May 27th

2014
CHEAP #07, July
Cacao Europa, February, Les Sphinx de Louqsor, Portfolio

2013
Greenlinkers: Interview, November.
Le Monde des Livres, thursday 14th February

2012
Ouvert la Nuit, France Inter, cultural agenda of Alexandre Héraud, interview
Wad magazine, Breaking News
Ouest-France, Image Publique
Photographie.com, Image Publique, Paysage et Territoire, Journal Japonais

2008
Libération, July 24th, cahier d’été, portfolio
Photos Nouvelles, July-August, portfolio

2006
Inframince n°2, workshop with Dominique Auerbecher