Laurence Aëgerter

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Laurence Aëgerter (* 1972 in Marseille ) is a French photographer and concept and performance artist .

Life

Laurence Aëgerter studied art history at the Faculté des Lettres of the University of Aix-en-Provence , at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie , Amsterdam.

Aëgerter works primarily with photography , produces artist books and carries out art projects in public spaces. As a starting material she uses z. B. Photographs, reproductions of icons of art history, text pages, books, etc. a. whose reading styles and cultural coding she changes through appropriation , intervention and translation.

She lives in Amsterdam and Marseille.

Projects (selection)

Tristes tropiques

The photo project Tristes tropiques , created in collaboration with the Dutch designer and photographer Ronald van Tienhoven, documents Aëgerter's engagement with a classic of ethnological literature, the book Sad Tropics by the French sociologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss . With the help of residents of Beetsterzwaag , a town in Friesland , the two authors recreated photos from the Sad Tropics , for example in the manner of living pictures , photographed the scenarios and compared them to the originals by Lévi-Strauss in their book. An exhibition of these works took place u. a. at the Lagos Photo Festival in Nigeria.

Herbarium Cataplasma

In 2014/15, at the invitation of the city of Leeuwarden , she carried out a project on medicinal plants in monastery gardens and environmental destruction by human hands on an undeveloped piece of land that had belonged to a monastery in the Middle Ages. Material for the Herbarium Cataplasma project was made up of the St. Gallen monastery plan on the one hand, and over 100 Google images of destroyed nature worldwide on the other. Residents of Leeuwarden were invited to take part in the project, to do their own research in libraries about the effects of ancient medicinal plants and to use a ritual symbolically, e.g. B. to heal scorched land - represented by a photograph - by contact with ginger . The rituals were photographed, documented in a special newspaper and finally found their way into the artist's book “Healing Plants for Hurt Landscapes”, which was published in 2015 with an edition of 1,050.

Cathédrales

In Cathédrales and Cathedrals at Sunset , Aëgerter deals with images or views of two famous French cathedrals: the Cathedral of Bourges and the Cathedral of Rouen .

Cathédrales , a photo series, documents the shadow cast by a window cross on a photograph in her studio. The double page with the facade of Bourges Cathedral comes from an illustrated book from 1950 about French cathedrals. The pictures in the series were taken over ten minutes at one-minute intervals. The picture, which was initially brightly lit, disappeared completely in the shadow after ten minutes and was no longer visible. The resulting 120 photos were integrated into an artist book.

Cathedrals at Sunset was inspired by a popular poster reproducing one of Monet's most famous images, signed CLAUDE MONET ROUEN CATHEDRAL AT SUNSET. Monet depicted the cathedral 27 times between 1890 and 1894 under changing lighting conditions and changing perspectives. Aëgerter photographed the poster behind the glass pane of a shop window from a fixed point of view at intervals, but the view of the poster does not remain the same: the constantly changing shadows and bright spots of light falling onto the poster from outside always set again other parts of the poster in the scene or make them disappear.

Cathédrales hermétiques is a photo series of three churches from the Romanesque to the 20th century. An illustrated book from 1950 is also the basis for Cathédrales hermétiques . In contrast to the previous projects, the focus is on three interiors of Christian churches as places of meditation and spiritual experience: Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire , a Romanesque church from the 10th century, the Cathedral of Coutances , a Gothic church from the 12th century . Century and a 20th century church, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc in Nice , built by the church architect Jacques Droz. The photographs each cover a period of around an hour. The recordings begin in the dark, the architecture gradually only becomes visible through the incident sunlight, over time similar to the process in a darkroom, in which the exposed material only gradually becomes visible.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2016: Photographic Treatment © , Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2016: Photographic Treatment © , Festival Images Vevey, awarded the Nestle Prize at the Festival Images in Vevey
  • 2015: Herbarium Cataplasma , Fries Museum , Leeuwarden (NL)
  • 2015: Works in textile , Galerie Maud Barral, Nice (FR)
  • 2015: Cathédrales , RVB Books Gallery, Paris
  • 2014: Cathédrales , Art Affairs Gallery Amsterdam
  • 2013: The Modernists and More , Hermitage Museum Amsterdam
  • 2012: Révélations , Galerie de la Ferronnerie, Paris
  • 2010: Le Louvre , MAMAC , Nice
  • 2010: Seek & Hide , Museum Van Loon , Amsterdam
  • 2010: Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte . In collaboration with Ronald van Tienhoven, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag (NL)
  • 2009: Appropriations , Institut Néerlandais, Paris
  • 2009: Opening Soon, Opening Now , Residency RED AIR Amsterdam
  • 2009: An Alphabetical Index of Some of the Stories , Residency CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam
  • 2009: AEGERTER , 2 × 2 projects Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 2011: Hermitage , The Modernists, Art Affairs Gallery, 2 × 2 projects Gallery in collaboration with C&H art space, Amsterdam
  • 2011: Laurence Aëgerter, Photographies et Tapisseries , Galerie Maud Barral, Nice
  • 2011: Staged Realities , Johan Deumens Gallery, Leipzig

Artist books and editions

  • Meer vreude met kamerplanten (2015), edition of 3000.
  • Healing Plants for Hurt Landscapes (2015) , edition of 1000 + 50 limited edition.
  • Cathédrales (2014), publisher RVB Books, Paris, edition of 490 + 50 limited edition
  • Trance (2012), edition of 10
  • Si prega di ricollocare i cassetti del catalogo nel giusto ordine , edition of 5
  • Tristes Tropiques: Illustrations hors texte (2011), in collaboration with Ronald van Tienhoven, publisher Filigranes, Paris, edition of 1000
  • 10 DAYS / 22 MONTHS (2010), edition of 8

Works by Laurence Aëgerter can be found in the collections of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the MoMA in New York, the Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris, the  MAMAC Nice, the Fries Museum Leeuwarden and the Caldic collection Rotterdam.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronald van Tienhoven, Kunstenaar, ontwerper & cultureel intermediair , accessed on May 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Lagos Photofestival , accessed on May 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Herbarium Cataplasma with numerous illustrations, accessed on May 3, 2017
  4. ↑ Seelevel Gallery , accessed May 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ Figure , accessed on May 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ Cathédrales hermetiques , accessed May 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ Photographic Treatment © accessed on May 4, 2017
  8. ^ 4th Nestle Prize to Laurence Aegerter, France , accessed May 4, 2017.
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personal data
SURNAME Aëgerter, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille , France