Gilles Saussier

Gilles Saussier (born in 1965 with Suresnes) is a Photographe French.

Biography

Gilles Saussier was born in 1965 with Suresnes, and resides at the Andelys in the Eure.

After five last years at the agency Gamma (1989 - 1994), Gilles Saussier breaks with the photojournalism and starts to work with experimental projects which intersect the kinds of documentary photography, the conceptual art and visual anthropology. From 1995 to 1996, Saussier resides at Dhaka, Bangladesh, and works on the project Living in the fringe , a corpus of portraits and landscapes devoted to the inhabitants of the river islands (tanks) of the Brahmapoutra and Bay of Bengal. In Return to the country , exposed for the first time to Dokumenta XI (2002), he proposes a poetic mediation on the cohabitation of the uses and the imaginary ones of the landscape in valley of the Epte at the border of the Île-de-France and the Normandy. Another project Studio Shakari Bazar begins in 1997 by an exposure under capital in the old city from Dhaka and the distribution from 74 portraits to the inhabitants from the Hindu district from Shakhari Bazar. Since, Gilles Saussier returns visit to his images and their owners. He documents the dissemination of his images in the street and carries out new generations of portraits (2001, 2004). In 2003 and 2004, it intervenes within the framework of two great projects of urban renewal: in the district of the Upstream-Quentin with Cherbourg, in the Malakoff district with Nantes with association Populates & Culture 44 where it carries out two exposures in situ ( the model apartment & Bivouac ). The most recent project of Gilles Saussier, the table of hunting , is an archeology of its own images of the Rumanian revolution with Timisoara, presented in 2005 to the Kunstmuseum of Basle within the framework of the exposure Covering the real .

For Gilles Saussier, photography is an act which unceasingly modifies the relation between the photographer, the subject photographed and the spectator. The historian of art Emmanuelle Chérel written:

It will be agreed that it is the externality that problématise Saussier. Contrary to a psychological model where ego exists full with its significances before coming into contact with the outside world, they allow an experiment which admits that it me is carried out while expressing itself. The vision and the representation of oneself and other change unceasingly in the experimentation. (...) In other words, the photographs of Saussier do not make image. They return the spectator to his own definition. This one is taken in a confrontation between the perception of him even as an image and what undermines this perception, between vision and engagement in the vision (and consequently a particular form of corporeity), between fixed forms and moving forms, variables ad infinitum. Divisions of a reality and a fiction, the proposals for a G. Saussier do not fix the gestures and an account, but, hustles the stable work of definition of the memory of the images. Photography, this fragile trace, circulates between the bodies and the glances. The spectator, is fixed in no right place. Engaged in the complexity of the process représentationnel, there remains free, has of its movements, its emotions and its judgments. Its glance moves at the same time as the objects and its thought (even theoretical) is migrante. (Emmanuelle Cherel: the show flat, of the guest to the citizen , Re-examined 303,2004).

Collective exposures (selection)

the Human Area , Museum of Art Comtemporain of Lyon, September 24th - December 31st, 2007.
Post-Doc. , Museum of photography, Thessalonique, Greece, spring 2006.
Fifty-Fifty , with Karim Daher, Zürcher Gallery, Paris, France, December 2005 - January 2006.
Covering the real , Kunstmuseum of Basle, Switzerland, April 30th - August 22nd, 2005.
Scenes of the street: Studio Shakhari Bazaar , Museum of the Art schools Thomas Henry Regional center of the Photography of Cherbourg-Octeville, Cherbourg, April 22nd - June 19th, 2005.
Documented 11 , Kassel, Germany, June 8th - September 15th, 2002.
Of the Territories , 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of fine arts (ENSBA), Paris, October 9th - December 30th, 2001.
Mother Jones International Fund for documentary photography awards , Gallery 16, San Francisco, the United States, July 16th - August 27th, 1999.

Personal exposures (selection)

Studio Shakahari Bazaar 1997-2007 , Zürcher Gallery, Paris, France, January-February 2007.
Studio Shakahari Bazaar , Center the Photography of Geneva, Switzerland, November-December 2006.
Towards cities, place of the bodies , Zürcher Gallery, Paris, France, March 2005.
Bivouac , the Model apartment, Nantes, in collaboration with association Populates & culture 44, December 11th, 2004 - February 20th, 2005.
Return to the country , Zürcher Gallery, Paris, France, June 5th - July 12th, 2003.
Waterwereld, leven in delta van Bangladesh , installation in the stopping anti-storm of Waterland Neeltje Jans, Burgh-Haamstede, Zeeland, Netherlands, July 9th - October 1st, 1997.
Dhaka matter of a city, Dhaka City Museum, and Faces of Shankhari bazaar, installation under capital in the Kalpana hotel, 57 Shankhari bazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 March 27th, 1997.

Publications (selection)

“Studio Shakhari Bazaar”, in N°5 Newspaper, Scenes of the street , the Regional center of the photography of Cherbourg-Octeville (CRCO), France, p 16-17, 2005
the documentary Ribbon, prefaces Octave Debary and Arnaud Tellier, a line made while photographing, ED. by 779 Editions and French company of photography (SFP), Paris, France, 76p., 2003
Remainders of a visit to the museum , booklet of artist ED. with the assistance of the Museum of ethnography of Neufchatel (MEN), of the House of (MSH), the Association Social sciences of the friends of the Museum Nicéphore Niépce, accompanying the end by Creusot or art to adapt the remainders, Debary Octave, coll the glance of the ethnologist, Editions of the Committee of Historical and Scientific Work (Ministry for research), Paris, 2003
Documented 11_Platform 5: exhibition , catalogs exposure, ED. by Documented and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GMBH, Kassel, Germany, p 486-487, 2002
“Shakari Bazar - Chatou”, in Of the territories in review 5/5, Of the territories an exposure, 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of fine arts (ENSBA), Paris, France, p 84-89, October 2001
Situations of the report, topicality of a documentary alternative, in: Communications n° 71, the party taken of the document, literature, photography, cinema and architecture with the XX° century, School of the High Studies into Science-Social (EHESS) - Center of Studies Transdisciplinaires (Sociology, Anthropology, History) (CETSAH), ED. by are Threshold, Paris, France, p 307-331, 2001
“Of the report to the gardening”, in Of the territories in review 3/5, 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of fine arts (ENSBA), Paris, France, p 48-57, April 2000
Bangladesh, moving ground, the calamities natural? in: the Diplomatic World N° 537, Paris, France, p 16 December 17th, th and th 1998
Living room in the fringe , foreword Opposite the naked ground, ED. by association Appeared, Paris, France, 144 p, 1998
Dhaka, matter of a city, catalogs exposure Dhaka City Museum, Ambassade of France in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 1997

Talks - Tests (selection)

Emmanuelle Cherel, “water escapes to me… spins me between the fingers”, in Journal 5, Scènes of the street , the Regional center of the photography of Cherbourg-Octeville (CRCO), France, p. 20-21, 2005
Dominique Baqué, For a new political art, contemporary art with documentary the , ED. Flammarion, France, p. 202,207-209, 211-216, 2004
Estelle Bories and Michel Poivert, “documentary Attitude, maintenance”, in the Bulletin of the French company of photography , 15, Paris, France, p. 3 December 6th, th and th 2002
Documented 11_Platform 5: exhibition shorts guides , guide of the exposure, ED. by Documented and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GMBH, Kassel, Germany, p. 202-203, 2002
Sylvain Maresca, “the document is a form”, in Living in the fringe , ED. by association Appeared, Paris, France, p. 130-137, 1998
Rukh Selim Lala and Towfiqur Rahman, Gilles Saussier one photography, maintenance, in ART has quarterly newspaper , vol. 2 4, Dhaka, Bangladesh, p. 18 April 23rd, th and th - June 1997

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