• PHILIPPE CHANCEL DATAZONE CURATED BY MICHEL POIVERT For fifteen years, Philippe Chancel explored sensitive areas of our planet to study...

    PHILIPPE CHANCEL

    DATAZONE

    CURATED BY MICHEL POIVERT

    For fifteen years, Philippe Chancel explored sensitive areas of our planet to study the world and document the most alarming symptoms of its decline. Working in such a way does not fit in with any identified genre of photography, making “Datazone“ an invention that encompasses the most tangible signs of a predicted disaster: a traumatic ecology, chaotic deindustrialization, toxic setbacks resulting from modernization. From China to the United States, from Africa to Europe, the whole world is screaming, with no shelter in sight. Philippe Chancel is a classic photographer. Everything he builds confirms that the modern world has not kept its promise. A great narrative is made of assembled images that show a profound sensitivity to the world.

    Michel Poivert

     

    Image: Philippe Chancel, Datazone #06, South Africa, Marikana, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Melanie Rio Fluency.

  • LOCATION: JIMEI CITIZEN SQUARE MAIN EXHIBITION HALL Exhibition in partnership with the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Publication: Datazone, texts by Michel...

    LOCATION: JIMEI CITIZEN SQUARE MAIN EXHIBITION HALL

    Exhibition in partnership with the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.

    Publication: Datazone, texts by Michel Poivert, Éditions Photosynthèses, 2019.

    Prints by Picto, Paris. Framing by Deuxième Œil et Circad, Paris. Ex-Voto by Dupon-Phidap, Paris.

    With support from Fidal and Melanie Rio Fluency.

     

    Philippe Chancel, Datazone #08, Nigeria, Niger Delta, Ogoniland, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Melanie Rio Fluency.

  • Philippe Chancel, Datazone #09, West Bank, Jordan Valley, Jericho, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Melanie Rio Fluency.
  • Philippe Chancel, Datazone #14, France, Marseille, Northern and Southern districts, 2017 and 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Melanie Rio Fluency.
  • Photographer PHILIPPE CHANCEL Born 1959, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Lives and works in Paris, France. For over twenty years, Philippe Chancel has...

    Photographer

    PHILIPPE CHANCEL

    Born 1959, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

    Lives and works in Paris, France.

    For over twenty years, Philippe Chancel has been pursuing a photographic experience at the junction between art, documentary and journalism. He was introduced to photography at a young age, and studied economics (Université de Nanterre) and journalism (CFPJ de Paris). His work has been displayed at the Barbican Centre in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, C/O Berlin, the Open Eye Society Foundation in New York, the 53rd Venice Biennale, and at the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, among others.

    www.philippechancel.com

  • curator MICHEL POIVERT Born 1965, Toulon, France. Lives and works in Paris, France. Michel Poivert is a critic, curator and...

    curator

    MICHEL POIVERT

    Born 1965, Toulon, France.

    Lives and works in Paris, France.

    Michel Poivert is a critic, curator and professor of the history of photography at Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University. He is the author of La Photographie contemporaine (2018), Les Peintres photographes (2017) and Brève histoire de la photographie, essai (2015). He was the curator of “L’Événement, les images comme acteur de l’histoire“ (Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2007), “Gilles Caron, le conflit intérieur“ (Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, 2013), “Nadar, la Norme et le Caprice“ (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2015) and “Gilles Caron 68“ (Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 2018). He is chairman of the planning organization of the Collège international de photographie du Grand Paris.