PhotoSaintGermain-Eugénie Touzé, Le Berceau

Eugénie Touzé, Le Berceau

« My video work actually stems from photography, with particular attention paid to framing and the shot. » Eugénie Touzé

For its second participation in the PhotoSaintGermain Festival, the Fondation LAccolade presents the work of artist Eugénie Touzé. Invited for a residency at the NIROX Foundation in South Africa, this photographer and video artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, immersed herself in the region of the « Cradle of Humankind ».

The exhibition title emphasizes the artist's discovery of a site at the origin of human existence: a new environment coming to life through her eyes and ears. How, then, through the camera's eye, to convey initial impressions when confronted with unfamiliar, wild flora and fauna, while avoiding the lingering memory traces of stereotypes, exoticism, and anthropocentrism?

Eugénie Touzé uses her equipment to convey the intensity of the moment. Through static shots and tight framings, she captures the infinity of space-time, embedded in every movement, every shift in light, every silence broken by a background sound: that of human activity, never absent. Three films and a series of photographs chronicle this encounter, this physical engagement with the place, mother earth, and everything that inhabits it.

On the occasion of the PhotoSaintGermain Festival, these works take possession of the walls of Fondation LAccolade, singularly transformed into a vessel of vital energy. Eugénie Touzé enacts « presences, » in the plural, returning viewers to their own ghosts in a nostalgic introspection of their animal nature.

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.