“French Photography Today: A New Vision of Reality” Poster image ©Sungkok Art MuseumSungkok Art Museum presents “French Photography Today: A New Vision of Reality”, through August 18.
The exhibition has invited French artists who have been witness to the beginning and end of photography during this period of radical changes to take part in a very special exhibition. This is the first major exhibition of contemporary French photography at Sungkok Art Museum since 2008, and is co-curated by Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais, the founder and director of “Photo Days” photography festival which has been held annually in Paris, France since 2020.
This exhibition presents the photographic works of 22 leading French artists. These artists reveal the traces of the many competitions, collaborations, and tensions that have characterized the relationship between photography and fine art for nearly 200 years.
The exhibition examines contemporary French photography by dividing the works that reveal the diversity and dynamism of the genre into the themes of traditional Western painting: ‘nature,’ ‘still life,’ ‘humans,’ and ‘space.’ In this way, “French Photography Today” classifies photography into certain traditional categories of fine art to present the diversity of the French photography scene today.
At the same time, it would appear as if today’s artists had some concerns about those same traditional categories of fine art and reflected these concerns through their own contemporary art.
