Date
12 September – 12 October 2024
Opening
12 September 2024
18:00
Venue
blackprint – Photography and Image-based Art Gallery
Curated by
Olli Bery & blackprint artist collective
© Olli Bery
blackprint presents the first photographic exhibition in Switzerland by French artist Olli Bery, «The Wrath of Dispossession». A unique photographic project over ten years (2012 – 2022) composed of research works, limited editions, and original unique prints.
«Olli Bery traverses photography as a warlord, some battles knock him down, the hope of a triumph makes him get up again. Words proclaimed, images constantly replayed, traces preserved, this is the opera of the repair of beings that staged. Engravings, prints, experiments, each image, like an illegitimate child, plays its own score, then returns to form a body in installations that evoke the heritage of the avant-gardes, with its relics and fetishes. Counterculture, personal mythology, the incandescence of existence, the delicacy of impressions – Olli Bery’s approach to photography is akin to the description of a battle.»
Michel Poivert, Historian of photography, Paris Panthéon Sorbonne