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Ο 1ος Όροφος σε συνεργασία με το Les Yper Yper παρουσιάζουν το project Temps Zero το Σάββατο, 7 Μαίου.

Δεκατέσσερις φωτογράφοι και έξι μουσικοί, συνυπάρχουν σε μια performance όπου οι προβολές και ο ηχητικός αυτοσχεδιασμός, μέσα από την ατομικότητα και την συμπόρευση, σχηματίζουν μια νέα, συμπαγή και ειλικρινή οπτική του κόσμου.

Free Entrance-Είσοδος Ελεύθερη
21:00 – Guest Projections
22:30 – Photo & Video Projections with Improvised Concert

[Facebook Event | Temps Zero | 1ος Όροφος]

Επιμέλεια: Stephane Charpentier, Laura Serani

-Temps Zero-

Temps Zero @ Les yper yper / Thessaloniki / 2016

Photographers Biography:

MICHAEL ACKERMAN

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Born in 1967 in Tel Aviv. Lives in Berlin.
Since his first exhibition, in 1999, Michael Ackerman has made his mark by bringing a new, radical and unique approach. His work on Varanasi, entitled “End Time City“, breaks away from all sorts of exoticism or any anecdotal attempt at description, to question time and death with a freedom granted by a distance from the panoramic -whose usage he renewed- to squares or rectangles.
In black and white, with permanent risk that led him to explore impossible lighting, he allowed the grainy images to create enigmatic and pregnant visions. Michael Ackerman seeks -and finds- in the world he traverses, reflections of his personal malaise, doubts and anguish. He received the Nadar Award for his book “End Time City” in 1999, and the Infinity Award for Young Photographer by the International Center of Photography in 1998. In 2009, he won the SCAM Roger Pic Award for his series “Departure, Poland“. His last book “Half Life” has been published in 2010 by Robert Delpire.
In 2014, he collaborated with Vincent Courtois, cellist, and Christian Caujolle, behind the project, in a show called “L’intuition” which proposes a dialogue between photography and music creation. This show was presented, in particular, as part of the festival Banlieues Bleues and for the Rencontres d’Arles 2014.

[Michael Ackerman @ Agence VU]

GAEL BONNEFON

TEMPS ZERO // GAEL BONNEFON

Born in France & lives in Toulouse (France)
GAEL BONNEFON graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse in 2008. He has exhibited at 104 in Paris, the Rencontres Internationales d’Arles photography, Water Tower Gallery and the Musée des Abattoirs in Toulouse for PhotoEspana, etc.. He participated in Zero Time project in Berlin, Braga and Thessaloniki, the Smell of Dust in Sao Paulo, New York … and benefited from artist residencies in Germany, France and Israel. His poetic images draw a sort of personal documentary that travels unconscious situations for a fiction that is rooted in everyday life.

 [Gael Bonnefon – Website]

LORENZO CASTORE

TEMPS ZERO // LORENZO CASTORE

Lorenzo Castore was born in Florence in 1973 and lives in Roma.
In 1981 he moved to Rome with his mother and in 1992 he relocated to New York where he began to photograph life on the streets.
After a formative trip to India in 1997, which was an important step in his personal and creative growth, he got a degree in Law and traveled to Albania and Kosovo in 1999. Here he photographed the Albanian exodus and portrayed a group of elderly Serbians who were imprisoned in an orthodox monastery under siege. After this experience he decided not to work on news themes anymore. In the same year he visited Gliwice, Poland where in 1939 Germany had attacked the local Radio Station, the event that was used as pretext to then start World War II. From this moment and for many years after, Silesia then Krakow became key locations for his photographic investigation. In 2000 he returned to New York and India for extensive traveling and photo work. In 2001 he moved back to Italy and joined the Grazia Neri Agency in Milan. In 2001-02 in Havana, Cuba he realized a series of photos under the title “Paradiso“. In 2003 he joined Agence/Galerie VU and worked on the series “Nero” in South-western Sardinia. He started teaching photography workshops around this time and won the Mario Giacomelli Award. In 2005 he won the Leica European Publishers Award and published the “Nero” book. In 2006 he moved to Krakow and published the”Paradiso” book. In 2007 he started to photograph the haunting Polish brother and sister Ewa and Piotr Sosnowski. This work continued through 2013. In 2009 he directed the film “No Peace Without War” with Adam Grossman Cohen and in 2012 the film premiered in many international festivals and won the Golden Frog Award as Best Short Documentary at Camerimage. In 2013 he worked on a series of photos called “Sogno #5“, a look at bipolar patients in the former Mental Institution Leonardo Bianchi, Naples. In 2013 he shot his second short film, “Casarola” about the Bertolucci family historic home. In 2014 he starts a collaboration with Luz network.
His work has been shown internationally in many personal and collective exhibitions. “Ultimo Domicilio” book is published in 2015.

 [Lorenzo Castore – Website]

STÉPHANE CHARPENTIER

TEMPS ZERO // STÉPHANE CHARPENTIER

Born in Lyon & lives in Athens.
ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY / VIDEO ART / MUSIC PROJECT / TEMPS ZERO CURATOR
Stéphane Charpentier is committed into an introspective photographic language. He selects very few pictures from his whole production and makes himself silver prints in the darkroom. He has lived in different cities (Paris, Toulouse, Lyon, New York and currently Athens), studied photography in Madrid, followed workshops with Michael Ackerman and Anders Petersen, worked as an assistant for Jean-Christian Bourcart in NYC.
Since 2012, Stéphane is elaborating over the years a self-produced experimental movie in Greece. He also directed short videos, installations, video-clips. Committed to field recordings and sound research, Stéphane took part to the creation of the free-rock ambient band Oiseaux-Tempête, whose debut album was released on Sub Rosa label. He is organizing and curating the Temps Zero shows based on the interaction of collective photo/video projections and live improvised music.

 [Stephane Charpentier – Website]

CLARA CHICHIN

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Clara Chichin was born in 1985. She lives and works in France. After starting to take an interest in the relationship between loterature and photography in university, she enters the Paris Beaux-Arts School in 2008, where she purses her artistic process. Clara Chichin mixes video, writings, and photography. She graduates in 2012, then joins The Hans Lucas studio.

[Clara Chichin – Website]

DAMIEN DAUFRESNE

TEMPS ZERO // DAMIEN DAUFRESNE

Born 12. July 1979 in Paris & lives and works in Paris and Berlin
Studied photography, drawing and engraving at the Ecole Boulle in Paris, at the Scool of Visual Arts in NYC and at school Nationale Superieure des Arts-Décoratifs in Paris. Diploma 2004 entgraving and print section, postgraduate “edition” in 2005.

 [Damien Daufresne @ Tumblr]

ENRICO DI NARDO

TEMPS ZERO // ENRICO DI NARDO

Enrico Di Nardo, born i n 1984 i n Chieti ( Italy ), graduated in Physics at Pisa University in 2007. He is presently living in Paris where he resumed his master thesis research in Neuroscience, after being on leave from the studies for the last four years. During this period he has lived between Rome and Sardinia, working both as math/physics private teacher and windsurf instructor.
In summer 2014 he is granted a scholarship by Scuola Romana di Fotografia for a one-year course on reportage and personal research photography. Second place at the Fotoleggendo portfolio prize 2015, shortlisted for the final selection of the Independent AIR residency/masterclass 2015 (Silkeborg, Denmark ) and the Prix Residence pour la Photographie de la Fondation des Treilles 2016 (Tourtour, France). His photographs have been shown at Obscura festival 2015 (Georgetown, Malaysia), Bitume Photofest 2015 (Gallipoli, Italy) and Slideluck Naples 2016 (Naples, Italy).

GABRIELLE DUPLANTIER

TEMPS ZERO // GABRIELLE DUPLANTIER

Born and lives in Bayonne (France)
Gabrielle Duplantier studied painting and art history at the university of Bordeaux in France.
Photography was a hobby on the side. After her university studies, she decided to dedicate herself to photography and she went to Paris where she worked as an assistant for several photographers.
In 2002, she felt the need to come back home. Inspired by the rich and enigmatic Basque country, she started a series of photographs where landscapes, animals or humans are revealed as impressionist visions.
She pursues her work on portraits of women, one of her favorite subjects, and on Portugal where she travels regularly. This series are continuous and interrelated. Gabrielle’s photographic world seems voluntarily detached from all temporal or social reality, she is seeking beautiful images that exist outside of any context, on their own. She has already published 3 books, works with press, edition or for musicians. Her work is also regularly exhibited. In 2012, Gabrielle Duplantier appears in “MONO“, edited by Gomma books, monography of the best contemporary black and white photographers along with artists such as Michael Ackerman, Trent Parke, Anders Petersen, or Roger Ballen. In september 2014, her new book “VOLTA” is released with the french éditions Lamaindonne.

[Gabrielle Duplantier – Website]

ILIAS GEORGIADIS

TEMPS ZERO // ILIAS GEORGIADIS

Born & lives in northern Greece in 1990, Ilias started experimenting with the photographic medium at the age of 19.
After extensive travels in 2011, he stops his university studies and starts making pictures in an obsessive way.
Ηis main interest focuses on the basis of the current social and interpersonal issues about human nature. An approach based on Europe which started in 2012 in Greece and continues until now.
He is always questioning the body and the mind, always trying to reach and express the limits of oneself within all possible ways.
Ilias’s main series of work named “Over|State” has been shown in various international festivals and traveling shows across the world and has been featured in on-line and printed publications.”Over|State” depicts the effort for Ilias to overcome struggles with interpersonal relationships, substance abuse and loneliness. Ilias uses his camera as a tool to observe alienating instincts and a desire for darkness — to seek the connection between darkness and light and to find a balance between the two.

[Ilias Georgiadis – Website]

ADAM GROSSMAN COHEN

TEMPS ZERO // ADAM GROSSMAN COHEN

Born in New-York. Lives in Berlin
Adam Cohen is a New York City born filmmaker and photographer based in Berlin. Working in a territory somewhere between film, painting and photography. His films focus on cities, memory and forgetting, history and entropy.

[Adam Grossman Cohen – Website]

LORENA MORIN

TEMPS ZERO // LORENA MORIN

Born in 1973 in Las Palmas (Spain), where she currently lives
Lorena Morin studied photography at the New England School of Photography in Boston. She also attended one year of film school in Barcelona, in the “Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos de Cataluña”, where José Luis Guerin, renowned Spanish film director, was her teacher. Back in the Canary Islands, she started working in the preparation and coordination of the 1st International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She has participated in workshops with Paolo Roversi and Andrés Serrano in Madrid, with Anders Petersen in Barcelona, Michael Ackerman in France and Rinko Kawauchi in Rome. In 2007 she makes her first exhibition “ficciones diarias” in Las Palmas, this show later travels to the Fotohuset in Kristiansand, Norway.
From that year she focuses her work on her children, her life at home and the personal changes happening around her. “Seeingyou” is an intimate ongoing project which has been shown for the first time in September 2011 in the STIMULTANIA GALLERY in Strasbourg. In 2010 Lorena and her partner, Ary, start organizing the “Insightsproject workshops”, the first one took place in Amsterdam with Michael Ackerman and in 2011 they invited Anders Petersen and JH Engström to give a workshop together in Las Palmas. “Insightsproject” is currently preparing a third workshop with Photographer Todd Hido.
Her work has been featured in GUP magazine, Art TV3 France, Contemporánea Magazine and Equivalence Magazine. Her photographs are in the collections of “Art and Photography Center” in Tenerife and in the “Modern Art Center” in Las Palmas. She has participated in several group exhibitions in Arles in the Gallery Huit de la Fotografie, in Las Palmas in the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea San Martín and in Los Angeles in the JANCAR Gallery.

[Lorena Morin @ Tumblr]

ALISA RESNIK

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Alisa was born in 1976 in St. Petersburg, Russia & lives in Berlin.
“Time is a jet plane, it moves so fast” and in its impetuous flight people and things rushing before our eyes are bound to hide their inner essence. Within this endless time flow we roam, craving a single moment of sincerity.
Photography is the way to stop a moment and have a chance to look deeper into ineffable reality, to step over this usually painful dichotomy between the subject and the object. It is the way to build the safe shelter of sensation on the quicksands of rationality, to feel at home looking from the window of a passing train.
Leaden-coloured sceneries, dying factories, echoed empty halls, old rooms still keeping a subtle feeling of the past, and faces, people’s faces… Hurried glances, small awkward gestures, hands searching for a support, grief or harshness in the corner of an eye – they’re all like birds ready to flutter out of their nests in search of your sympathy, to break through the glass of loneliness.
These images materialize into projections of your memories and start living their own lives. They tell the stories for you, the stories you might think you’ve seen with your own eyes. They combine colour and shape with your dreams and feelings, becoming part of you, and you’re sentenced to return to them again and again.
So you roam over the world looking for the moments you could stop and turn into the act of perception, looking for a revelation, looking for a mirror… Always looking for a mirror…
Alisa Resnik/ Kirill Alexeyev

 [Alisa Resnik – Website]

GILLES ROUDIÈRE

TEMPS ZERO // GILLES ROUDIÈRE

Gilles Roudiere was born 1976 in France and lives and works in Berlin. He is a self-taught photographer, and in 2005 he decided to give up his job as an executive to concentrate on photography. His work mainly focuses on Central and Eastern European countries. He is represented by the gallery In)(between in Paris. (www.inbetweengallery.com)

[Gilles Roudiere – Website]

LARA TABET

TEMPS ZERO // LARA TABET

Born and lives in Beirut.
Lara Tabet (b. 1983) is a Lebanese pathologist and visual artist. In 2010, as she was finishing her residency in Clinical Pathology at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Tabet participated in a workshop led by Klavdij Sluban during the Rencontres Internationales de la photographie in Arles.
In 2012, she completed a one-year, full time program at the International Center of Photography in New York and was the recipient of the Lisette Model scholarship. She has been exhibited internationally in New York, Beirut, Arles, Bruxelles, Toulouse, Lecce, London, Singapore…
Her works mainly questions photography in relation to both documentation and performance for the camera and the spectrum of realities that lies in between. Often taking the landscape as a starting point, she oscillates between the memory a place holds, and the significance it takes on once being photographed and transgressed.
She is currently residing in Beirut, where she continues to explore the themes of memory, trauma, the city, and the body.
Lara Tabet is represented by Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut.

[Lara Tabet – Website]

Το Τime | Τone project είναι ένας διάλογος μεταξύ ήχου και κίνησης. Αποτελεί μια ηλεκτοακουστική σύνθεση βασιζόμενη σε ένα γραφιστικό score, το οποίο αποκτά σωματική υπόσταση μέσω του χορού στο χώρο.

4 τόνοι (C, C#, A, A#) εναλλάσσονται και αλληλεπιδρούν κατά τη διάρκεια της σύνθεσης, δημιουργώντας τυχαίους συνδυασμούς και διαφορετικές αρμονίες κάθε φορά. Η αλληλουχία των τόνων διακόπτεται κάθε 2 λεπτά από μικρές φράσεις, όπου οι μουσικοί καθοδηγούμενοι από τους τόνους δημιουργούν νέες “στρώσεις” και επίπεδα ήχου, αποσπώντας έτσι την προσοχή από τη συνέχεια των τόνων και τοποθετώντας τους στο background για λίγο. Μετά το τέλος κάθε φράσης επανέρχονται στο προσκήνιο.

4 χορευτές υποστηρίζουν τη μουσική δομή, ακολουθώντας το score και ενσωματώνοντας ήχο και μελωδία σαν σύνολο και σαν άτομα μέσω κινητικών μοτίβων και αυτοσχεδιασμού.
Κατά τη διάρκεια της αλληλουχίας των τόνων, το σύνολο μετατρέπει τις συχνότητες και τους παλμούς του ήχου σε κίνηση απελευθερώνοντας την κινητική αυτή ενέργεια στο χώρο.