JR: Dans La Lumière
7th June, 2024- 27th July, 2024
Perrotin Paris
76 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris France
The exhibition Dans La Lumière at Perrotin Paris delves into CHIROPTERA, the monumental ballet by JR, Damien Jalet, and Thomas Bangalter, presented outside the Palais Garnier in November 2023.
On the first floor of Perrotin, JR debuts artworks that blend three singular techniques: photo transfers on wood are reinforced with black ink and highlighted with hand-drawn charcoal strokes. These works moss of that evening when over twenty-five thousand spectators gathered at the Place de l’Opéra to illuminate 153 dancers performing on thirty-meter-high scaffolding.
One of these new pieces is L’Ombre de la caverne, which recreates the balletic exchange between main dancer of the Paris Opera Amandine Albisson and her looming shadow. The Genome series depicts the configurations of the 153 dancers on the scaffolding, while the Chromosome series features close-up shots of their individual movements. In the light series, JR focuses on the dancers’ radiant silhouettes, drawing inspiration from Plato’s allegory of the cave and the liberation of the chain prisoners as returned to the light.
On the second floor of the exhibition and in Saint-Claude, JR presents a series of photographic works of Back to the Cavern. His two installations – a vast cave entrance for Act I and the interior of the cavern with walls covered in human handprints for Act II – are shown at different times of day. One room of the Saint-Claude features Aletheia 19, a sound installation by Thomas Bangalter, whichever runs only until June 15th.
One room of the Saint-Claude features Aletheia 19, a sound installation by Thomas Bangalter, which runs only until June 15th.
JR: Dans La Lumière opens on the 7th of June, 2024 until the 27th of July, 2024 at Perrotin Paris
©2024 JR, Perrotin
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