Starting from the critical observation with regard to disembodied images smoothed out by media broadcasting, Lisa Sartorio seizes photographs of cities ravaged by bombing, which she prints on Awagami kozo paper. She then comes to work manually on the surface of this thick paper with an extremely fibrous texture, and carries out various treatments of the order of gumming, folding or crumbling.By deteriorating these photographs of places, of which she only keeps the name of the conflict as an identification, she brings the viewer to the epidermis of the image, like a peeled, fragile and reactive surface. By modeling the image with her fingers, she summons new signs. She charges the paper with an experience, when in its flatness, the photograph was no longer sufficient to evoke the story of a tragic moment.
Works references :
Collections
BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France
Private collections in France, Suisse, Pays-Bas, Royaume-Uni, États-Unis including Evelyne & Jacques Deret (Paris), Philippe Castillo (Paris), GCA (FR), Galiana & Wiart (Paris), Bruno Muheim & Daniele Cornaggia (FR), Jos Ruijs (NL)
Exhibitions
Épreuves de la matière, BnF, Paris, 2023
Contre-culture dans la photographie contemporaine, in collaboration with Texutel editions, Galerie Binome, Paris, 2022
En rémanence, Galerie Binome, Paris, 2021
Biennale de l’image tangible BIT20, La villa Belleville, Paris, 2018
Publication
Ici ou ailleurs, monograph, L’Artiere editions, 2023
ELLES, Elles X Paris Photo, Textuel editions, 2023
Épreuves de la matière, exhibition catalog, BnF editions, 2023
Contre-culture dans la photographie contemporaine, Michel Poivert, 2022
Rencontre Lisa Sartorio & Christian Gattinoni, Les carnets, Filigranes editions, 2022
Les fictions documentaires en photographie de Christian Gattinon et Yannick Vigouroux, Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2021
Elles x Paris Photo, catalog, 2018
Film
Faire surface - artist film by Stanislav Valade, production AM Art films, 2019