PhotoSaintGermain-Guillaume Bihan et Daria Svertilova, Clément Chapillon, Daphné Nan Le Sergent

In partnership with the Centre national des arts plastiques

Guillaume Bihan and Daria Svertilova, Clément Chapillon, Daphné Nan Le Sergent

Curated by: Pascal Beausse & Aurélia Marcadier

The three projects brought together this year at Galerie du Crous offer a poetic reading of geopolitical issues and power struggles running through today's world, where contemporary tensions silently shape lives. At the heart of these photographic explorations, water flows as a guiding thread traversing the narratives.

Guillaume Bihan and Daria Svertilova travel the banks of the Danube all the way to Ukraine to portray a youth whose future remains uncertain. These transitional figures suspended between childhood and adulthood embody solitude as much as belonging to the strange worlds they traverse.

Daphné Nan Le Sergent weaves a dialogue between the evolution of images and territories that have become strategic for the global semiconductor industry: Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. In these spaces where mastery of digital technologies has become a major geopolitical challenge, data acquires resource value comparable to that of water. The artist unfolds visual, auditory, and poetic analogies that question new forms of circulation, power, and dependence.

Clément Chapillon turns his lens toward the Dead Sea, a place steeped in millennial history where Palestinians and Israelis come for an immersion to escape their own weight and experience a physical sensation that momentarily suspends territorial divides. A sea that nevertheless inexorably recedes, depositing upon shores, landscapes, and images the traces of its disappearance.

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.