In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
Beau Disundi, Constance Nouvel, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian
In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc presents two artists and a trio brought together by their way of creating: starting from the concrete, from reality as a support, they suggest an imaginary and a fiction that go beyond our relationship to reality and history, questioning our modes of perception and our identities. Constance Nouvel, Beau Disundi, and Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian form an emerging and international scene whose reflections are both innovative and deeply affecting.
Constance Nouvel (born 1985, lives and works in Paris) has been developing since 2010 a body of work that takes as its starting point a critical analysis of photography: understanding how the photographic process is not merely the reproduction of reality, but also the image of a tangible world. Her reflections unfold through a formal visual language open to interdisciplinarity, leading to the notion of photographic objects. Format, scale, and support are in constant dialogue, shifting between real and suggested space. Working from actual photographs taken in the field, she pushes photography beyond its frame, making it say things it could not say alone.
Beau Disundi (born 1993 in Kinshasa, DRC) transforms dried cod into an artistic prism through which to explore world history from intimate perspectives. His practice traces the threads of trade, memory, and power embedded in material histories. From recovered makayabu packaging to large-scale metal structures, his works construct poetic and critical landscapes where past and present collide, built up in layers, without perspective, almost Japanese in sensibility.
The collaborative practice of Ramin Haerizadeh (born 1975), Rokni Haerizadeh (born 1978), and Hesam Rahmanian (born 1980), all three Iranian, took shape in 1997 in Tehran, though the artists have been based in the United Arab Emirates since 2009. At the heart of their art, production is performance and performance is a collective action leading to dance, art, and politics. By subverting everyday objects and images drawn from the press, they transport their subjects into a phantasmagorical universe where current narratives are upended, questioning our relationship to reality.