Mathieu Bernard-Reymond & Chloe Sells

5 September – 5 October 2024

For the first chapter of their partnership, Galerie Miranda and Baudoin Lebon will present a dialogue between two contemporary artists working at the opposite ends of the analogue-digital spectrum but who both consider the photographic image as the 'primary material' of their hybrid practice: where Chloe Sells (1976, USA) interprets handprinted chromogenic landscape, working in a entirely analogue process with paint, ink, collage and darkroom experimentation, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond (1976, France) works with technology to 'transform' his documentary images of French hydroelectric, industrial and nuclear facilities, into poetic, yet troubling, abstract compositions.

 

BERNARD-REYMOND, Mathieu (represented by Baudoin Lebon)

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond is a French photographer, born in Gap in 1976. He lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. He graduated from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies and the CEPV in Vevey. Exploring generative technologies and data manipulation, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond manipulates the image to construct a strange poetics and renew the visual codes of photography. He has exhibited around the world since 2001 and has published two monographs in 2003 (You are here, Actes Sud) and 2008 (TV, Hatje Cantz). Winner in 2003 of the CCF Foundation for Photography, in 2009 Mathieu Bernard-Reymond was awarded the Arcimboldo prize with his series “Monuments.”

SELLS, Chloe (represented by Galerie Miranda)

Born in Aspen, Colorado, in 1976, Chloe Sells has exhibited her work since 2009 in the United States, Europe and Africa. Chloe photographs with a Contax 645 and Linhof 4x5 camera. She uses film and prints all of her work by hand in the darkroom. Each of her works is a unique analogue C-type print, using conventional negatives overlaid with abstract colour, light, texture and patterns in the darkroom; she sometimes draws into the surface of her printed photographs with paint, ink and marker, and has recently been exploring the antique process of marbling in relationship to the fixed photographic image. In 2016 her first publication Swamp, published with GOST books, was shortlisted for the Prix du Livre d'Auteur des Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles. Since then, Chloe Sells has published two other monographs with GOST: Flamingo (2017) and Hot Damn! (2022).