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  • Installation view of Armelle Kergall
    "Selfies 1920-2020"

  • Installation view of Armelle Kergall
    "Selfies 1920-2020"

  • Installation view of Armelle Kergall
    "Selfies 1920-2020"

2021.7.9 ー 7.27

Armelle Kergall "Selfies 1920-2020"

Armelle Kergall’s collage works featured in this exhibition were created using photographs of her own family.

For some reason, Kergall noticed feeling nostalgic about self-portraits that her grandfather had taken, even though she was not yet born when he made them. She combined his self-portraits with her own selfies in inventive collages, creating in the process a family album that transcends the confines of time and space.

By their very nature, family photographs tend to be filled with personal memories and feelings of yearning. 

In Kergall’s images, the gaze of her grandfather intersects with her own gaze of her family in the past and in the present. And even to complete strangers, Kergall’s handiworks of her family manage to evoke a certain longing and nostalgia.

As a small souvenir, a miniature version of Kergall’s photo boxes will be available for purchase at the venue.

 

Armelle Kergall
Armelle Kergall is a French photographer currently based in Tokyo.
In 2005, she started the photographic project “Anatomie d’une famille française” (“Anatomy of a French family”), a series that captures the daily life of her family members and questions the invisible bonds of a bloodline. The series received the “Bourse du Talent Portrait Grand Prize” in 2013.
While photographing her relatives, Kergall discovered troubling elements that deeply resonated in her. She started investigating her family tree and the photographic archives of her grandfather, leading her to develop several art projects such as “Ghosts”, “Genogram” and “Chateaubriand, Ingres & I”. These projects were part of the exhibition she presented at KG+SELECT in 2019 – “Anatomy of a French Family/ Investigation in progress” – and which won her the “KG+SELECT Public Grand Prize”.

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