The scar / Patrick Tourneboeuf
To what extent can photography go hand in hand with History?
In a search to find remnants of the Berlin Wall, one realises that our collective memory still permeates a few stigmas and other marks left behind. One looks for details and testimonies fossilised in time. What has become of those surveillance zones which were once under tight security? Those No Man’s Lands which were cut off, caught between two worlds, concrete bound? A real memory part of a past epoch has forever inscribed our present-day society. Through an age-long span of observation, one’s vision records everyday life in which the most commonplace aspects of our lives have become a natural part of the urbanisation of cities. We are now faced with a line cutting across history, and because it has changed with the patina of time, it is no longer seen. A ghost reigns over the memory of mankind like a scar.
Exhibitions :
2010 – Galerie FNAC Marseille, Monaco, Cannes, Lille / France
2010 – Festival «Horizonte», Zingst / Allemagne
2009 – Bibliothèque des Champs libres à Rennes / France
2009 – Galerie FNAC Paris, Toulouse / France
2007 – Festival des photaumnales « La Grange », à Montreuil/Brèche / France
2006 – Rencontres internationales de la photographie à Arles / France
2005 – Festival de la quinzaine photogarphique Nantaise,
maison du quinzième Ciels / France
2004 – Mois de la photo, Galerie Emotion, Paris / France
Book :
Editions du huitième jour, 2005
See the book
- 3 prints large format
- 12 photographs black and white :
- 9 photographs of 30 x 40 cm
- 2 photographs of 40 x 50 cm
- 1 photography of 80 x 120 cm
- 14 photographs color :
- 1 photography of 93 x 135 cm
- 6 photographs of 82 x 122 cm
- 2 photographs of 66 x 100 cm
- 1 photography of 60 x 90 cm
- 1 photography of 82 x 110 cm
- 3 photographs of 40 x 60 cm
and 7 text color of 30 x 40 cm