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5/6/2003

Group show

Hammer sidi, London

Anna Adahl, Laetitia Benat, Philippe Terrier-Hermann

hammer sidi is pleased to present the work of three young artists who live and work in Paris. Whilst each artist uses the traditional vocabulary of photography - portraits, landscapes and scènes de genre - this exhibition confronts three different and remarkably personal universes.

Anna Adahl's work focuses on the notion of meeting and the way in which One person approaches and comprehends another; the artist is particularly interested in the illusion of the dialogue and the necessary and individual moments of non-discussion. The cinematic aspect of her work Don't Play with me because I know you reinforces the process of projection and identification as the viewer's attention is caught by the portrait. No dialogue takes place, just the questioning of oneself and our ability or inability to communicate.

Laetitia Benat is showing a specially conceived installation of photographs.Her work takes an immediate, insistent and fast look at people and their environment, capturing the moment, the atmosphere and emotions experienced. It is the extremely communicative nature of Benat's photography which enables her to work in the form of an exhibition, a reportage, a magazine (notably her collaboration with the fashion, art and essay publication Purple) or an advertising campaign for well-know fashion stylists such as Helmut Lang and Martin Margiela.

Philippe Terrier-Hermann's photographs are from his project Intercontinental (1996-2000), an open ended developing ensemble which comprises a photography bank, a line of furniture, sculptures, pottery, videos, haute couture and ready-to-wear lines, and a perfume bearing his name. According to Terrier-Hermann, x{2018}this micro-business' evokes the worlds of luxury and finance and recycles their codes to create a factitious and coded parody universe articulated by a system of cross-references, which is designed to be reinserted into the artistic field.'

The exhibition is part of Made in Paris: Photo/Video, a season of French photography and video co-ordinated by the French Embassy - Institut français du Royaume-Uni taking place in London in the months of May and June 2003

For more informations: http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/madeinparis

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