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Exhibition of Léonard Bourgois Beaulieu, The Indocile Vestiges - Galerie Alain Gutharc

Culture · Tuesday, October 27 · 11:00 · Paris

7, rue Saint Claude, 75003 Paris

In 2012, at the Villa Medici, I photographed the stone. I searched in architecture for something that exceeds the monument: a material that has withstood time, charged by uses, presences and successive gazes. The Villa seemed to me less as a conserved building than as an ancient body continually reactivated by those who pass through it. The stone remained, but it was not still. It accumulated. I wanted to subject my negatives to a transformation comparable. Through my lychenotype process, their surface became vulnerable to moisture, to the tem…