Take A Walk on the Wild Side

PHOTOGRAPHS Jean Marques & Micael Alves
WORDS Ingrid Luquet-Gad

Take A Walk On The Wild Side is an exhibition of imprints. Throughout the seven artists, we will see many photographs: imprints, therefore, in the sense of the numerous exegeses that like to qualify the medium. In this precise case, the imprint is to be understood in the calorific sense. It names the remanence of the bodies, the inhabited spaces and the traced constellations.

Their perception is less visible than sensitive, because there is nothing fixed there: we are still at the threshold of the works. Here, the creation is maintained to its possible; it is open and it is in progress. By bringing together Bryon Gysin, Peter Hujar, Greer Lankton, Paul Monroe, Marion Scemama, Andreas Sterzing and David Wojnarowicz, the New Galerie gives a stage to a collective organism. But this organism is not metaphorical. These signatures have done much more than know each other, greet each other or cross each other, they have especially surveyed together the wild edges and
have not found themselves so bad there. It could start with a piece of sidewalk. For example, one evening at an art opening. There, we look at each other and we see each other; we rub each other and we make a crowd. Perhaps then this story of warmth
begins to become more incarnate.