Prize winner Carré Sur Seine 2022
Emeric Lhuisset
Born in 1982, he grew up in the suburbs of Paris.
Official website : www.emericlhuisset.com
Artist profile
Emeric Lhuisset
Born in 1982, he grew up in the suburbs of Paris
LAUREATE CARRÉ SUR SEINE 2022
The Carré sur Seine 2022 Prize was awarded to Emeric Lhuisset " for his ability to represent the controversial facts of contemporary geopolitical history, challenging the official and canonized formulas of historical and journalistic narratives, for the rights of global citizenship in the post-colonial era ".
Emeric Lhuisset presents his photographic and video work as an artistic retranscription of geopolitical analyses. His work, mainly realized in war zones, oscillates between contemporary art and photojournalism. Through his stagings and by diverting its codes, he questions the representation of reality and exacerbates both the violence and the humanity of conflicts.
Emeric Lhuisset graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École Normale Supérieure in geopolitics. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions around the world: Tate Modern, London, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Frac Alsace, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Rencontres d'Arles, Sursock Museum, Beirut, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Louvre Lens... He won the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award 2020, the BMW Residency for Photography 2018 and the Grand Prix Images Vevey - Leica Prize 2017
LA CASA
- exhibition-event of the winners of the Prize Carré sur Seine, from February 3 to 24, 2023 -
It is a small metal trunk painted in white - as a symbol of a missive for Peace? - that the photographer places before our eyes to remind us that we must support the revolution in Iran and understand that the slogan "Zan, Zendegi, Azadi" ("Woman, Life, Freedom"), denounces the regime's even greater oppression of the Kurdish minority than it already does of its own population. The murder of Mahsa Amini (her Kurdish name is Jîna Amini) is the double murder of a minority and a woman.
Photographer and geopolitician, Émeric Lhuisset masters the image as a photo-plastician and the field as a photo-reporter. Describing the theaters of war in scripted shots; Maïdan Square, Ukraine, Iranian Kurdistan are apprehended between the front and back zones. In this latent time, in this space which relates the real without direct pathos, the photographer seizes in the bodies, the faces and the testimonies of these civil or armed combatants, the hope allowed by their humanity.
Some samples
- Emeric Lhuisset, Theater of War 1, photograph, 2011-2012, © of the artist
- Emeric Lhuisset, Theater of War 2, photograph, 2011-2012, © of the artist
- Emeric Lhuisset, The other shore, cyanotype prints gradually disappearing in the sunlight, 2011-2017, © of the artist
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