Collective exhibition
Curated by François Hébel

Ten prints from the series De Finibus Terrae by Alain Willaume are presented at the Fondation François Schneider as part of Eaux troubles, Eaux calmes, a collective exhibition curated by François Hébel.

“Water is life’s basic component. Its impurity can be frightening; its absence instigates conflict; its abundance leads to generosity and joy. These contrasts are inherent to its nature. For the artist who, through photography or cinematography, is in search of poetry, water is a challenge, a difficult matter to handle. Once again, we deal in contrasts: water, snow, fog, waterfall, wave, these aspects are visually too flat, too fluid, too plain, to be food for a visual artist, unless it is to make those visionless pictures of nature that are often lumped under the term “postcard”.
In this exhibition, 12 great photographers and cinematographers who have overcome these difficulties to bring us visual essays where water, liquid, solid, or gaseous, is the central theme. These projects showcase the extraordinary diversity of this ever-so-familiar element, in styles ranging from documentaries to introspections, some graphical, some contemplative, and always with water as their lead actor.”
François Hébel

Guest artists : Philippe Chancel, Lucien Clergue, Jean Gaumy, Brian Griffin, Harry Gruyaert, Naoya Hatakeyama, Mazaccio & Drowilal, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Gonzalo Lebrija, Martin Parr, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Alain Willaume.

Fondation François Schneider
18th June – 11th September 2016
27 rue de la première armée
68700 Wattwiller (France)

Opening : 17th June at 6 p.m

Press release