exhibition JEAN-LUC DE LAGUARIGUE INHABITED PHOTOGRAPHS
JEAN-LUC DE LAGUARIGUE | PHOTOGRAPHIES HABITÉES
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Practical informationHere is a photographer for whom the very essence of art is captured not in the studio but in the encounter with the other.
It is through photography that Laguarigue left the haunted country of his childhood behind, cut off by an invisible window… Camera around his neck, he tirelessly wandered between the huts, sugarcane fields and factories looking for people. That is, until one day, when the photographer’s long-awaited portrait moment finally came. Gifted with what could well be called a photo-sensitive eye, Laguarigue revealed the unique beauty of a population of faces in the gallery of “silent faces” fixed by History. An authentically Caribbean photographer, Laguarigue captured the ever-unique secret harmony of the eyes and hands to create portraits that, rather than being objects for us to look up and down, are intensities that gaze at us. As Chamoiseau so cleverly put it, “Jean-Luc de Laguarigue does not create portraits but releases presences… The force of these presences is the effect of humanity.”
Text by Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert
