Exhibition Type: Group Exhibition

Curator:
Tanguy Sévat-Denuet (Réunion Island)

Artist(s):
Edgar Marsy
Romain Philippon
Sandrine Lam
Jean-Marc Grenier

Venue:
Central Library

Address:
Cape Town

Description:
This exhibition is structured around the notion of what is destined to disappear. Through the perspectives of photographers from La Réunion such as Edgar Marsy, Romain Philippon, Sandrine Lam, and Jean-Marc Grenier, the project brings into tension fragments of the territory captured in a suspended state, between persistence and inevitable erasure.

These black-and-white photographs, produced without digital alteration, capture elements of reality that still belong to the present but are already becoming obsolete. There is a form of unsettling irony in these images between heritage, memory, and contemporaneity: we attach ourselves to the remnants of a past, indulging in a nostalgia that we sometimes frame as resistance to modernization.

The work of these photographers is based on direct capture, without retouching or transformation, in an effort to fix what physically marks a space and to offer a truth far removed from postcard imagery. These images constitute the city, the street, the territory in its sensitive and identity-based depth. Yet it is only in the moment of disappearance that absence fully reveals itself – and with it, the loss of a truth specific to these territories.

Through this exhibition, I aim to question that precise moment when reality shifts into memory, when space loses what once defined its singularity.