THE OFF EXHIBITIONS
Every year, the "Off" section of Planche(s) Contact hosts about fifteen photographic exhibitions produced by photographers who live in Deauville for part of the year, or by collectives and associations of photography enthusiasts. Deauville and its components remain the central theme of this program, which is carried out by photographers who know the town and its atmosphere very well. The exhibitions will take place in private locations, galleries, hotels... from October 21 to November 26.
Gérard Staron
The sea baths
Equipped with his Polaroid, Gérard Staron has been surveying the beaches of Normandy and Picardy since 2013. His series evokes a distant time when the sea, barely accessible, made people dream. A time when the coastline was still relatively virgin and the seaside similar to the one described in light and reflections by the impressionists. What could be more natural then than to use old technologies to bring the past to life. The diffusion of light through old cameras, the printing of the film with chemistry outdated for several years, everything suggests the image more than it shows it. It leaves it up to our imagination.
PLACE OF EXHIBITION: ARTHUS-BERTRAND JEWELRY STORE
105 RUE EUGENE COLAS. Every day from 10:30 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 7 pm.
Igor Douplitzky
The sea, for those who dream
When no one looks at it
The sea is no longer the sea,
It is what we are
When no one sees us.
She has other fish,
Other waves too.
It is the sea for the sea
And for those who dream of it
Like I do here.
Jules Supervielle, The Fable of the World
EXHIBITION PLACE: Casino Gallery
Entrance on the stores side.
Every day from 9am to 8pm.
Victor Rival-Garcia
Expired-Normandy
This photographic series is the perception of a daily life out of season. It is constructed as a representation of calm, absence and solitude.
Victor Rival-Garcia chose the silver medium to play on the temporality of the images. All the films and papers used for this series are more or less outdated, some of them more than 30 years old. The interest is to capture images on which the spectator has no temporal reference. This expired date gives a particular grain to his pictures. The paper used for the original prints, also outdated for several years, gives rise to contrasts that do not necessarily correspond to the grades chosen. This series on the seashore draws a parallel between the subject and the medium, between the grain of the film and the grain of the sand.
EXHIBITION PLACE: Casino Gallery
Entrance on the stores side.
Every day from 9am to 8pm.
Sonia Fitoussi
Dialogues
Based in London since 2004 as a freelance photographer, Sonia Fitoussi is passionate about art in all its forms. Art, which she never ceases to (re)discover in museums, or art that is offered to her gaze in various forms in the street, and which feeds her passion for photography. She enjoys watching and photographing the reactions of passers-by to the works of art that take over the city of Deauville during her exhibitions. Interaction or indifference create a playful dialogue between reality and artistic representation. "Nothing gives me more pleasure than to capture that authentic moment when a scene of ordinary life meets a work of art and responds to it, in a humorous or poetic way.
EXHIBITION SPACE : DEAUVILLE TOURISME
Quai de l'Impératrice Eugénie, open every day from 10am to 6pm from Monday to Saturday, then every Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm.
Thomas Czarnecki
Sandstorm in Heaven
On the boards, under a cobalt sky, see the one the sailors are waiting for arrive. At first very mischievous by untying the buns and lifting the light dresses, then terrifying by raising the beach and pushing inexorably all the onlookers to the exodus. We crossed paths that day, he and I. I even managed, for a moment, to capture him.
LOCATION OF THE EXHIBITION : DOORS OF THE CABINS
Between the Sun Bar and the Point de Vue (Outdoor Exhibition)
Dominik Rimbault
Swim in the azure... Dive into the wave of the imagination...
By offering us an unexpected poetry, the pool invites us to dive into a permanent imagination. Born from a wave, the pool becomes a shell, a snowy peak, an animal, a monumental sculpture... With its mysterious reflections, open to the outside, vibrating with light, every hour, every minute, it provokes the eye. It is this metamorphosis that Dominik Rimbault tried to seize.
EXHIBITION PLACE : WINDOWS OF THE SWIMMING POOL
Boulevard de la Mer (Open air exhibition)
Myriem Brunot-Bouali
Water from there
The water where she was born rocked her childhood. The sea nourished in her a certain reverie and the light sharpened her eye. She was looking and staring at the image long before she started taking photographs. What she likes is to see beyond what is visible, to go through the image and see what it hides. The aquatic reflections take on a whole new meaning.
PLACE OF EXHIBITION : HOTEL CONTINENTAL
Open every day, 14h>20h
Julien Touchard
In the manner of JR
Windows of the Mitoyen room at Deauville Tourism and brick warehouses, Presqu'île (Open air exhibition)
Photographer of 33 years old, Julien Touchard has been passionate about photography for several years. He closely follows the evolution of the artist JR and his team, through the rise and success of their concept Inside Out. Taking up in Deauville this photographic protocol that inspires him so much, Julien Touchard proposes an original outdoor installation. For the occasion, about thirty Deauville merchants have lent themselves to the game. Their large format black and white portraits are displayed on the facades of the new Presqu'île district.
PLACE OF EXHIBITION : BRICK WAREHOUSES, TOUQUES PENINSULA
(Open air exhibition)
Manuel Guyon
Tandem
By dint of living together, in a couple, each one ends up taking little things from the other, little by little, without us noticing. Manuel Guyon offers a portrait of Deauville through its couples who are so much in love that they end up being just two identical images.
EXHIBITION SPACE: SHOP WINDOWS OF THE CITY'S MERCHANTS
(Open air exhibition)
Objectif Image 14
Everything in Deauville could only inspire Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel said that "fashion is not something that exists only in clothes. Fashion is in the air, carried by the wind. We can guess it. Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
In love with modernism and freedom, Deauville gave Coco Chanel its light and its wet sand reflections. The young designer saw sailors moving against the wind and the waves in comfortable fabrics and functional cuts. She wanted to free the bathers with constrained bodies. Tennis players and golfers inspire her comfortable and elegant clothes. Elegance again in the world of racing and polo, which suggested new materials. She made an art of living on vacation, a style that goes beyond fashion.
André Mangion, Jean-Peirre Bilhaut and Henri Carabajal, three photographers from the Objectif Image 14 collective, have chosen to rediscover this imaginary world inspired by the city of the boards, through three different looks and techniques brought together in a nod to the memory of Coco.
PLACE OF EXHIBITION : PROTESTANT TEMPLE
5, rue de la république.
Every day from October 21st to November 5th, 2pm > 7pm.
Jean-François Baulon
Life in blue
The beach and the adjacent bathing cabins are a must for anyone visiting Deauville. Even before the construction of the Pompeian baths, inaugurated in 1924, there were already hydrotherapy establishments in Deauville. These appeared from 1860 onwards, the date when Deauville began to emerge from the ground. Jean-François Baulon chose to produce a series using a photographic technique from this period called "cyanotype". This technique, which was widely used by pictorialist photographers, is based on the use of ferric salts, giving a final image with bluish tints. A way to go back in time.
PLACE OF EXHIBITION : PROTESTANT TEMPLE
5, rue de la république.
Every day from October 21st to November 5th, 2pm > 7pm.
Maurois High School Students
High school students of Deauville.
The high school students of Deauville exhibit a series of portraits made without modern cameras, but with pinhole cameras. The photographs were taken in a place chosen by each student. Thought as self-portraits, they reveal a part of their identity.
PLACE OF EXHIBITION : WINDOWS OF THE LYCEE MAUROIS
10 boulevard Eugène Cornuché (Open air exhibition)
City Agents
Exposed!
Once again this year, the City's agents were invited to become photographers for a short time.
EXHIBITION SPACE: FRONT OF THE TOWN HALL
(Open air exhibition)
