{"id":6970,"date":"2023-08-01T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bienale.lt\/2023\/?post_type=artists&#038;p=6970"},"modified":"2023-08-01T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:33:45","slug":"francois-xavier-gbre","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/bienale.lt\/archive2023\/en\/artists\/francois-xavier-gbre\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Gbre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Gbr\u00e9 (b. 1978, Lille, France) lives and works between La Rochelle in France and Abidjan, Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In touch with time and geography, his work summons the language of architecture as a witness to memory and social change. From colonial remains to landscapes redefined by current events, he explores territories and revisits History. This constant dialogue with his environment leads him to use different scales and modes of exhibition, whether in the presentation of meticulous installations, linked to a real investigation of the territory, or in the use of architecture itself to make photography resonate in a physical relationship with the spectator or the public space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent exhibition selection\u00a0:\u00a0<em>Lova<\/em> (Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2023),\u00a0<em>A world in Common: Contemporary African Photography<\/em> (Tate, Londres, 2023), Dakar Biennal (Mus\u00e9e des Civilisations Noires, S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, 2022),\u00a0<em>Shifting dialogues: photography from the Walther Collection<\/em>\u00a0(D\u00fcsseldorf, Allemagne, 2022),\u00a0<em>La Nage de l&#8217;Elephant<\/em>\u00a0(Galerie C\u00e9cile Fakhoury, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, 2021),\u00a0<em>Ton pied, mon pied<\/em>\u00a0(Jimei x Rencontres d\u2019Arles, Xiamen, Chine, 2020),\u00a0<em>Chine &#8211; Afrique : Beyond the colorline<\/em>\u00a0(Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2020),\u00a0<em>Sogno d\u2019Oltremare<\/em>\u00a0(Museo MAN, Italie, 2019),\u00a0<em>Afriques Capitales\u00a0<\/em>(La Villette, Paris, 2018),\u00a0<em>Landscape Photography Today<\/em>\u00a0(Denver Art Museum, U.S.A., 2018),\u00a0<em>Recent Histories<\/em>\u00a0(The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Allemagne, 2017),\u00a0<em>The Past is a Foreign Country<\/em>\u00a0(Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, USA, 2015),\u00a0<em>Fragments<\/em>\u00a0(Galerie C\u00e9cile Fakhoury, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, 2015),\u00a0<em>Abroad<\/em>\u00a0(Art Twenty One, Nigeria, 2015).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His photographs and installations are part of the collections of Moma (USA), \u00a0Centre Pompidou\u00a0(Paris, France), Tate Modern\u00a0(London, UK),\u00a0Smithsonian Institution\u00a0(Washington, Usa),\u00a0Queensland Gallery of Modern Art\u00a0(Brisbane, Australia),\u00a0 the Walther Collection\u00a0(Neu-Ulm, Germany &#8211; New York, Usa), the\u00a0Philadelphia Museum of Art\u00a0(Usa, 2020),\u00a0Collection des Rencontres d&#8217;Arles\u00a0(France), Fonds National d&#8217;Art Contemporain\u00a0(France) and many other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Gbr\u00e9 won the Louis Roederer Prize at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d&#8217;Arles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6945,"template":"","class_list":["post-6970","artists","type-artists","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bienale.lt\/archive2023\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/6970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bienale.lt\/archive2023\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bienale.lt\/archive2023\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bienale.lt\/archive2023\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bienale.lt\/archive2023\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}