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[June 4th 2003]
Press release
Anna Ådahl, Laetitia Benat, Philippe Terrier-Hermann
Curated by: Florence Derieux
5 June - 5 July 2003
Private View: 5 June 2003, 6.00-8.30pm
Open : Wed - Sat 12-6pm
Hammer sidi is pleased to present the work of three young artists
who live and work in Paris. Whilst each artist uses the traditional
vocabulary of photography portraits, landscapes and scènes
de genre - this exhibition confronts three different and remarkably
personal universes.
Anna Ådahls work focuses on the notion of meeting and the
way in which one person approaches and comprehends another; the
artist is particularly interested in the illusion of the dialogue
and the necessary and individual moments of non-discussion. The
cinematic aspect of her work Donˆt Play· with me
because I know you reinforces the process of projection and
identification as the viewerˆs attention is caught by the portrait.
No dialogue takes place, just the questioning of oneself and our
ability or inability to communicate.
Laetitia Benat is showing a specially conceived installation of
photographs. Her work takes an immediate, insistent and fast look
at people and their environment, capturing the moment, the atmosphere
and emotions experienced. It is the extremely communicative nature
of Benatˆs photography which enables her to work in the form
of an exhibition, a reportage, a magazine (notably her collaboration
with the fashion, art and essay publication Purple) or an advertising
campaign for well-know fashion stylists such as Helmut Lang and
Martin Margiela.
Philippe Terrier-Hermannˆs photographs are from his project
Intercontinental (1996-2000), an open ended developing ensemble
which comprises a photography bank, a line of furniture, sculptures,
pottery, videos, haute couture and ready-to-wear lines, and a perfume
bearing his name. According to Terrier-Hermann, Œthis Œmicro-businessˆ
evokes the worlds of luxury and finance and recycles their codes
to create a factitious and coded parody universe articulated by
a system of cross-references, which is designed to be reinserted
into the artistic field.ˆ
The exhibition is part of Made in Paris: Photo/Video, a season of
French photography and video co-ordinated by the French Embassy
Institut français du Royaume-Uni taking place in London in
the months of May and June 2003.
For further information please contact Lotta Hammer or Anna Vickery
on +44 (0) 20 7377 2137 or email: info@hammersidi.com
hammer sidi, 53 fashion street, london, e1 6px. t: +44 (0) 20 7377
2137 f: +44 (0) 20 7377 9319, www.hammersidi.com
Supported by: Fondation d'art contemporain Daniel & Florence
Guerlain, La Fondation EDF, Institut Français, Institut
Français du Royaume-Uni & Pommery Champagne
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