Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach at Paris Photo
Booth B29 and Voices Sector
PARIS PHOTO 2024
7th November, 2024 – 10th November, 2024
Grand Palais
For the 2024 edition of Paris Photo, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach is delighted to participate in two sectors. In the main sector, in Booth B29, the gallery presents a group exhibition featuring artists working with expanded photography, collage and process-intensive interventions: Gordon Matta-Clark, Carmen Winant, Lebohang Kganye, Lita Albuquerque, Stephen Gill and Rafael Y. Herman. Simultaneously, the gallery highlights Lebohang Kganye’s work in the Voices Sector as part of
Liberated Bodies, an exhibition curated by Azu Nwagbogu.
courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta Clark and Patinoire Royale Bach
Curated by Julien Frydman, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach’s booth at Paris Photo highlights three artists with innovative practices using collage. Gordon Matta-Clark (USA, 1943-1978), a seminal figure in the 1970s New York art scene, is renowned for his radical building cuts, interventions that transformed architectural spaces into sites of creative disruption. Matta-Clark’s works on view, including collages from his landmark series Splitting (1974) and Conical Intersect (1975), translate his architectural cuts into meticulous, layered photographic compositions, embodying his concept of “anarchitecture.”
courtesy artist and Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, (c) artist
His photo-collages encapsulate his vision of exposing hidden layers within neglected urban environments, creating haunting, multidimensional perspectives that echo through contemporary art. The presentation at Paris Photo is concurrent with the major exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark on view through December 21, 2024 at the gallery in Brussels. Matta-Clark has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Whitney Museum, New York, Jeu de Paume, Paris and the subject of countless other major exhibitions.
Matta-Clark’s work is represented in prominent public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, MoMA, and many others.
Alongside Matta-Clark is Lebohang Kganye (South Africa, b. 1990) whose work with cut-outs and sculptural photography infuses her pieces with theatrical dimensionality. Kganye’s practice challenges and reclaims historically oppressive narratives, transforming memory through her unique use of collage and performance. Her layered compositions in Two Stories of (Hi)Stories (2023) draw viewers into complex histories, where Kganye herself steps into the roles of various historical figures, weaving new memories within a contested past.
Through her art, Kganye reimagines postcolonial histories, bringing light, both metaphorically and literally, to the untold stories of her culture. Kganye will hold a major solo exhibition at the gallery in Brussels in 2025. She is featured in the upcoming New Photography exhibition at MoMA, (2025) and was recently awarded the Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize (2024).
The artist has recently exhibited at TATE, The Barnes Foundation, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, The South African Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, and others. Kganye’s work is held in institutional collections including the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Victoria and Albert Museum, Verbund Collection, Walther Collection, and Carnegie Art Museum, among others.
Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach at Paris Photo Booth B29 and Voices Sector is on view the 7th of November, 2024 until the 10th of November, 2024 at PARIS PHOTO 2024
©2024 Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach
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