"Behind The Playground," a Traveling Exhibition
by Cédric Bourgeois and Séverine Rémy
The association "3X7Galerie" is organizing its first exhibition "Behind The Playground" from October 16 to 21, 2023 at the IESA arts&culture Gallery, 75011, Paris.
Conceived as a road movie, "Behind The Playground" is a journey of many stories where the road offers us a field of every possibility. In turn, the visitor.
landscapes and atmospheres drawn from the American fictional universe unfold, succeeding one another, conversing, and blending into each other.
Steeped in the poetry and musicality of the Beat generation, "Behind The Playground" takes the visitor onto those great paved American highways where the sun beats down. This road, a symbol of freedom and a quest for authenticity, is presented through moments of life: from coffee at the rest stop to the arid landscapes scrolling by, we see the desert, a motel, the end of the line, a swimming pool, the California coast, the sun… Along the way, an encounter and the unexpected, sometimes a shot is 'burned,' partially erased by the manual process of film photography. From this journey is born an intimate adventure, "Behind The Playground."
Open to the public from October 16 to 22 from
14:00 to 20:00, the opening will take place on Tuesday, October 17, 2023
at the IESA Gallery starting at 19:00.
About "3X7Galerie": created in 2023, the association "3X7Galerie" organizes artistic events
and cultural events dedicated to the 3rd and 7th arts. Its members carry out projects whose ambition is to (re)present international artists to audiences of aesthetes, enthusiasts, and those curious about photography and film.
Cédric Bourgeois and Séverine Rémy are students in the Professional Master Art Market - Expert in Marketing and Distribution of Artworks.
ON THE ROAD, Artists on the Way
Between Beatnik poetry and road-movie aesthetics, Mickael Beusse, Damien Couvaud, Alexander Gonzalez Delgado, Evan Hutchings, Matej Kovac, ONI, Oliver Parker, Dante Ruscitti, and Renato Teixeira share with us a few of their shots from these journeys that make us dream so much.
With Dante Ruscitti, we discover an America of colors, with its advertising signs at night, its desert areas and deep blues, where time seems suspended.
Photography becomes organic with Renato Teixeira; we see the elements, taste them, feel them: water, a shower head, a wave, a hand, a nest,
a swimming pool is soft, enveloping, comforting; the grain of the image is fine, sometimes pronounced, in black and white, sandy, and you let yourself be lulled.
The photography continues with Damien Couvaud on the edge of Arizona in these arid, lunar landscapes; space is handled here with dexterity and meticulousness, Land art, the path seems already traced, the rocky earth is red, precious, we are "On The Road."
Exhibition curators:
Cédric Bourgeois
Séverine Rémy
Press Release September 2023
3x7 Galerie Press Contact:
Cédric Bourgeois +33 (0)6 67 16 70 20
Séverine Rémy +33 (0)6 07 80 71 59
