troubled waters - Marie Jo Lafontaine

Marie Jo Lafontaine - Troubled Waters - 2013
Edition of the Galerie Guy Peters

With a production that brings together nearly forty photographs, videos, installations, but also monochrome paintings, Marie-Jo Lafontaine has created, over time, a polyphonic work that crosses many genres and topics. So the portrait, the body, the (urban) landscape and flowers (dead nature) is often discussed, represented, treated and with them - intimate or political - themes of childhood, loneliness and death, society in the era of globalization, the power and money. For this, devices also were invented, devices related to creating new reports, for example between the photograph and the text between the image and the sound, or with video-sculpture design. These last - Marie-Jo Lafontaine remains one of the main representatives - offer sculptures made up of videos: screens projecting images, around which the viewer can wander, redefine the concept of audiovisual perception . From this variety of practices, genres and plastics investigations, the exhibition of the Guy Pieters gallery in Saint-Paul-de-Vence offers three rooms and so in three parts, if not a summary at a precise, dense and refined introduction, while opening this work to new concerns today. The first room (Wishlist) presents productions in different periods of the artist, then videos together under the title of one of them are on display in the basement of the Gallery (Dark Pool And Others), a sensitive reflection on the landscape, who took source in the experience of the sky of Saint-Paul-de-Vence that the artist has had, finally, is shown in a third space of the Gallery (suddenly the sky became blue).
Chromatic arrhythmia, the Wishlist part offers a significant route in the photographic work of Marie-Jo Lafontaine. Images from the series Babylon Babies (2001), portraits of young people on a monochrome background, appear with photographs of clouds, celestial vaults and storms (skies, 1996), teenagers photographed in black and white (Liquid Cristals, 1999) is adjacent to the flowers of the Lost Paradise series (2001) or Banana Kisses and Frozen Margaritas (2003).

• In this regard, the very beautiful text by Jan Koenot Troubled Waters, appeared in the book

eponymous editions Guy Pieters (2013), registered with erudition and precision the work of
Marie-Jo Lafontaine in a dramaturgy of gravity.
Alexandre Castant is essayist, art critic and Professor at the École nationale
supérieure d’art of Bourges. Author of works on literature, Visual arts or
sound creation, he has published, in 2014 at the éditions Filigranes, Écrans de neige,
collection of articles, photographs, texts, images where two studies on the photographic
works of Marie-Jo Lafontaine are presented.

Hardcover
2013
Guy Peters

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