FROM FEBRUARY 25 TO AUGUST 23, 2020

Marie Bovo, nocturnes at Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson

“Photographing at night involves the use of the long pause, and one of the peculiarities of the long pause is to add time to the measurement of light. »Marie Bovo

It is very often at nightfall that Marie Bovo is tempted to hold back time. Not only because of the very long pause that the chosen photographic technique imposes on him - large format, film, natural light - but also to slowly watch this passage of hours unfold in depopulated but inhabited intermediate spaces. The Nocturnes exhibition at the Fondation HCB presents a unique selection of images taken by Marie Bovo between dog and wolf, in Marseille and in Africa.

This approach to time, illustrated by both photography and film, is based on quiet and concerned observation, politeness of the gaze, the appropriation of an imaginary inside by the outside. Marie Bovo thus passes with happiness from photography to the moving image and her images, presented systematically in series to emphasize the passage of time, are situated at the limit of the cinema. The visual quality and the very controlled form of his works do not at first suggest the almost humanistic spirit that underlies them.

The border of the intimate without invasion, the inhabitants, at night, are common things with Marie Bovo who intends by this to resist the aggression of the hunter objective and to flow in rhythm in the flow of life, in all discretion. .

The exhibition at the Fondation HCB presents 35 large format prints from 5 different series as well as 2 films.

Curator: Agnès Sire, Artistic Director
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with the kamel mennour gallery and accompanied by the publication of a book.