PhotoSaintGermain-Claire Cocano, Rue Désiré Chevalier

Claire Cocano, Rue Désiré Chevalier

Laureate of the Révélation Livre d'artiste 2025, "Rue Désiré Chevalier"

Claire Cocano was honored with the Révélation Livre d’artiste 2025 by ADAGP in partnership with the salon (Made Anywhere) for Rue Désiré Chevalier. This self-published book takes us into an apartment, the one where the artist's Yugoslav grandparents settled upon arriving in France in the sixties. It was in this very apartment that, forty years later, they witnessed the dissolution of their native country. Memories intertwine like the embroideries her grandmother spent hours weaving.

Through her own images, family photographs, diary excerpts, letters, and identity cards, Claire Cocano reinterprets her connection to this vanished country, creating a narrative between past and present, native country and adopted homeland. ADAGP is pleased to invite the artist to present Rue Désiré Chevalier in an exhibited form where the notion of reproduction reactivates the spaces of the book and the apartment to unfold its stories on the viewer's scale.

This exhibition takes place within the framework of the PhotoSaintGermain festival. Organized in the heart of Paris, in the iconic Saint‐Germain‐des‐Prés neighborhood, PhotoSaintGermain is an annual festival dedicated to promoting photographic creation.

PhotoSaintGermain offers a free and freely accessible exhibition tour across a selection of museums, cultural centers, galleries, and bookstores on the Left Bank. This tour highlights a sharp and eclectic program designed by associated galleries, as well as several original exhibitions and novel projects imagined and produced by the festival.