Seminar - Photographs, Texts, Archives: Practices of the Essay
with Nina Ferrer-Gleize, the 2023 scholarship recipient, and Marielle Macé, a French essayist
Recherche & création
Amphi du Mûrier - Beaux-Arts de Paris
2 Nov. 2023
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PHOTOGRAPHS, TEXTS, ARCHIVES: An Investigation into Sisterhood
Featuring Doriane Molay, the 2023 grant recipient, and Rachael Woodson, artist
Seminar coordinated by Christian Joschke, art historian
While photography—freed from its status as a document—was long cultivated in the form of a painting, it now tends to return to its original modesty: souvenir images, administrative documents, family albums, catalogs of gestures, medical imagery, and archives. By exploring this economy of instrumental images, artists allow photographs to speak a language of intimate, discreet experience, closely tied to lived situations. The relationship to the written word thus takes on forms that literature has termed “documentary,” yet which are imbued with narratives, imaginations, and dreams. In the interplay between photography, text, and the archive, a poetics of the document is reenacted. Yet at the same time, it transcends the forms of the photo-text, extending into performance, installation, and inquiry.
As was the case last year, this year’s seminar will be part of the Lille Institut pour la photographie’s program to support research and artistic creation. Among other guests, we will welcome several recipients of this program’s grants. The aim will be to facilitate a dialogue between a researcher and an artist on themes related to the interplay between photography, text, and the archive.
A discussion on sororities, Thursday, November 16, in the Mûrier lecture hall, featuring:
Doriane Molay
A graduate of the ENSBA, Doriane Molay is currently completing her dissertation at the EHESS. Her research, which focuses on the practice of the photo album and is grounded in a social aesthetics perspective, examines the construction of the “self” through narrative and its impact on the formation of the subject. With this in mind, she completed her philological training at the Warburg Institute and the Houghton Library at Harvard University. At the same time, Doriane Molay is a co-leader of the project Fiction and the Ethical Turning Point she is supported by the FMSH and is currently a fellow in the research program of the Institut pour la photographie des Hauts-de-France, through which she is beginning an essay on the vernacular practices of the Stephen sisters.
Rachael Woodson
Originally from the United States, Rachael Woodson is a photographer. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, she moved to France in 2009, where she studied at the ENSP and Paris 8 University. She is particularly interested in the subjective aspects of photography and the way it conveys intimate and visceral experiences. Memory, loss, and the concept of the muse are at the heart of her work. She explores these ideas notably through a series of portraits of her brothers and sisters that she has been creating since the 2000s. An inexhaustible source of inspiration, these photos form part of a multifaceted narrative.