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Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguity

Past exhibition
2019-04-13
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Overview
Sébastien Camboulive Contiguïté #14, 2018 Tirage pigmentaire sur papier Hahnemühle Fine Art 21 x 29 cm Dim. papier: 21 x 29 cm
Sébastien Camboulive
Contiguïté #14, 2018
Tirage pigmentaire sur papier Hahnemühle Fine Art
21 x 29 cm
Dim. papier: 21 x 29 cm

Les Douches la Galerie is very pleased to present Contiguïté [Continguity], Sébastien Camboulive's latest solo exhibit, following on from his series Spirales [Spirals] in 2008, Visages [Faces] and La limite pluie-neige [Neither Snow Nor Rain] in 2013. Built round old magazine images, Contiguïté brings together twenty never-before-seen prints through a tale of transmission and renewal.

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Works
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #14, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #14, 2018
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #2, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #2, 2018
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #19, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #19, 2018
  • Sébastien Camboulive Contiguïté #10 Tirage pigmentaire sur papier Hahnemühle Fine Art 23 x 30 cm Dim. papier: 23 x 30 cm
    Sébastien Camboulive
    Contiguïté #10
    Tirage pigmentaire sur papier Hahnemühle Fine Art
    23 x 30 cm
    Dim. papier: 23 x 30 cm
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #3, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #3, 2018
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #16, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #16, 2018
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #13, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #13, 2018
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #18, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #18, 2018
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #1, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #1, 2018
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #8, 2018
    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté #8, 2018
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Press
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté

    L'Oeil de la Photographie, 5 June 2019
  • La bascule du regard, Pierre Boucher, Jean Moral, André Steiner

    Sophie Bernard, La Gazette Drouot, 24 May 2019
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  • La bascule du regard

    Frédérique Chapuis, Télérama Sortir, 8 May 2019
Installation Views
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019 Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019

    Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019 Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019

    Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019 Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019

    Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019 Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019

    Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019 Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019

    Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019 Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019

    Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019 Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté, 2019

    Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

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Press release

Stemming from a rigorous selection of 1950s and 60s news magazine images, Contiguïté is at once the subject of transmission and an attempt to appropriate. By deploying motifs taken from a single domain, Continguïté is very clearly part of Camboulive's serial works, as well as part of his constant drive to refresh his visual vocabulary.

From a hundred copies of magazines that he found in an attic, Camboulive kept 200 images, subjecting some to reworking and reframing. He was keen on their immediate formal interest, and subsequently composed a body of singular images that evoke a moment of the past while also being freed of their original mission to inform and illustrate.

Appropriating existing documents – a first in Camboulive's work – represents a form of ecological iconography in a context where we are saturated by images, but it is also a deconstruction of classical photographic procedures. Camboulive extracts the image from its medium, from its historical context and its original meaning, keeping only a nebulous form placed in an enigmatic whole.

This doubt, which is characteristic of his work, is already present in the series Visages, where individual identities seem imperceptibly absorbed by the group, as well as in the fictional assembly of real moments in La limite pluie-neige. In Contiguïté, the images projected outside their time are fragments, glimpses of our contemporary turmoil.

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Related content
  • Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté Press

    Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguïté

    L'Oeil de la Photographie 5 June 2019
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  • La bascule du regard, Pierre Boucher, Jean Moral, André Steiner Press

    La bascule du regard, Pierre Boucher, Jean Moral, André Steiner

    La Gazette Drouot 24 May 2019
    Read more
  • La bascule du regard Press

    La bascule du regard

    Télérama Sortir 8 May 2019
    Read more

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