L’Emoi Photographgraphique – exhibitions at the Hôtel Saint Simon

For the 11th "L'Emoi Photographique" festival, the Saint Simon hotel will host exhibitions by Cush Mok, Timothée Falcucci, Morel, Dominique Agius, Jean-Michel Delage, Marié Debitus.
Inauguration of the exhibitions will take place on Saturday April 6 at 15 p.m.

Cushmok - If tomorrow I could relive yesterday
This exhibition is a narrative autofiction based on childhood memories up to the age of 12 in Niger. This work is not based on real images or photographs, but on personal memories, transcending the reality of the time.
The work consists of two series of images, all created using artificial intelligence tools. The first series uses the Midjourney AI to generate representations of the author's childhood memories, while the second series draws on childhood, film photographs, edited and extended by the Adobe Firefly AI.
For this exhibition, CushmoK creates an installation in a dark room where images are hung on the wall, among handwritten notes, drawings, documents, objects... visitors immerse themselves in this memory revealed by the light of their phone.
CushmoK explores through this installation the notion of ambiguity in the representation of memories and the impact of artificial images on the perception of realities, present and past. The project aims to delve into the subjectivity of memory, reflecting a 50-year-old man's perspective on his childhood.

Timothée Falcucci - 1968-2018
"My father, at a photo school in Paris, took silver photos of the May 1968 revolt. I have seen these prints twice in my life. I vaguely remembered the cobblestones, the crowd, the police and the overturned cars. 2 years later, I took photos of the Yellow Vests in December 50. After a few months, the memory of my father's photos resurfaced in my mind.
Can my father’s photos match the ones I captured?”
https://tempsdexpo.com/photographe-2023-timothee-falcucci/

Romain Thiery - Requiem for pianos
This exhibition brings reflection on our future through research to return pianos stolen by the Nazi regime.
https://romainthiery.fr/requiem-pour-pianos/

Anthony Morel - Here the Wild Way begins
Using photography to prepare yourself, to suggest an alternative path, to live in harmony with yourself.

Dominique Agius - Corium
"A series composed of unique cyanotype prints whose appearance is close to the sketchbooks of masters of drawing and sculpture. The particularity of this series lies in the support used. The prints are made on natural skin. C It is a mise en abyme of the body on the body. A representation of an authentic and original self-portrait in the epidermal sense of the term.
These self-portraits are an intimate narrative aimed at documenting my fleshly envelope before a surgical procedure for drastic weight loss."
https://www.da-focus.com/corium

Jean-Michel Delage - Photographer in 1920, an investigation.
Photographer Jean-Michel Delage, originally from Angers, embarked on a fascinating investigation based on a rich anonymous photographic collection dating from the 1920s.

Marie Debitus - Nan saidesu ka? (How old are you ?)
Humanity becomes a subject of study for the artist who questions human paradoxes in its race for consumption or modernity and the conservation of its heritage.