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Yveline Loiseur
Prize winner 2012
Yveline Loiseur
Entre presence et absence/Between presence and absence
Born in 1965, Yveline Loiseur is a Lyon based photographer.
The title Entre présence et absence is borrowed from Henri Michaux, a poet who drew the passage of time by playing with the memory of forms.
The photographs in the series show hospital beds at the Hôtel Dieu in Charlieu, in the Loire region. The building housing them, built in the 18th century, is now the Hospital Museum. The series comprises 14 photographs, corresponding to the 14 beds situated face-to-face along the walls of the grand salle des malades, in use until 1981. Each bed is like a small theater of emotions, a muffled, bare reminiscence of the King's bed in his Versailles bedroom. All the same, all different, the beds are exemplary settings for the spectacle of intimacy. The curtain in the foreground expresses this ambiguity: closed, it conceals suffering from the eyes of others; open, it reveals the memory of pain and exposes its disappearance.
Natural light illuminates the interior of each bed, sculpting the folds of fabric. The ten-minute exposure time records the slow decline of daylight (the Museum's janitor turned off the artificial lighting during the shooting sessions), capturing an image that secretly fades into silence, accompanying a contemplative, meditative vision. This long time also allows us to fix a fossil memory, present in the variety of fabrics, the marks of ageing and mending.
While the light highlights the remnants present in the folds of the sheets and curtains, the tight framing allows us to linger on the materials, accentuating the perception of an enclosed, autonomous space. He isolates the object from its context to provoke a rapprochement with painting, notably with Robert Ryman's monochromes.
Born in 1965. She is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d'Arles and the Université Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris I (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies on the relationship between photography and painting in the work of Gerhard Richter, under the direction of Bernard Teyssèdre, Marc Jimenez and Gilbert Lascault).
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