Jérémie Lenoir, Topologies

When: March 20th – 30th 2024
Where?: 7, rue du Thorigny
75003 Paris

A non-profit association, the Lézards is the story of a friendship between its members who have in common the same desire to explore, discover, and meet contemporary artists, visit workshops, discover artistic trends, be anchored in the contemporary art world, and at the end acquire works to be shared.
After having exhibited in September 2022 43 works acquired from 43 artists between 2007 and 2022, the Lézards are proud to grant an award to the most noticeable artist of the lates round of acquisitions (2019-2022), Jérémie Lenoir. The prize consists in holding a 10-day exhibition in a Parisian gallery.
For the past 15 years, Jérémie Lenoir’s work makes up an anthropology of contemporary landscapes while at the same time exploring the limits of the photographic medium. Photography, only photography, always photography.

Lenoir’s images deflect the idea of objective or documentary photography and shift our gaze, resulting in a transfiguration of reality, questioning the meaning, history, and intimacy of the world around us.

This articulation of the aerial point of view challenges the ability of the photographic medium to reproduce the real and of our landscapes to fall within a law of identity. In this way, his “paintings” put forward a rereading of contemporary terrains where real and imaginary, presence and absence, retraction and attraction, distance and abandonment enter into dialogue.
So, what do we see? Flints in macro? Wrinkles on one hand? Drifting icebergs? We transmit our own artistic references into these artworks, such as our vision of a childish, dreamlike, scientific, or purely sensory world… we read multiple cosmogonies that I invite you to decipher, convinced of the imperative need to create, through imaginary, an intimacy with the world around us.

Info :
Press release (pdf)
7lezards.net
www.jeremielenoir.com

© Jérémie Lenoir

Construction site, Achères, 2012
Direct print on Dibond
80 x 80 cm

Jérémie Lenoir, Topologies

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