{"title":"Francois-Xavier Gbre","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"biographie\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Lille in 1978, François-Xavier Gbré lives and works between Ivory Coast and France. His work questions colonial vestiges and social change. His exploratory practice approaches photography as a medium for weaving a dialogue between context, environment, and memory. Represented by Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, his work has been exhibited in France and internationally, notably at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and at Tate Modern in London in 2023, and is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the FNAC – Fonds national d'art contemporain, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. In 2020, François-Xavier Gbré won the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles. In 2024, he was the first winner of the Latitudes programme of the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"radio-ballast","title":"Radio Ballast","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Radio Ballast by Francois-Xavier Gbre. First impression. Medium format hardback in new condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose between a signed and an unsigned copy from the dropdown menu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor over a year, François-Xavier Gbré traveled along the railway line, photographing train cars, stations, maintenance workshops, and diverse landscapes. His images are imbued with a certain melancholy, reflecting on the passage of time and its effect on matter. As a counterpoint to the photographs of landscapes bathed in light and exuding the humidity of the earth, there is a series of images of fragments: surfaces peeled away by the passage of time or eaten away by rust... Little by little, an outdated atmosphere emerges from these places, a feeling of time standing still. The journey to which the photographer invites us speaks of a history that is certainly over, but whose echoes still resonate in areas long fragmented by colonial presence, whose imprint endures despite the vagaries of nature and man.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis series is accompanied by a text by Clément Chéroux, director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, an essay by Sandrine Colard, photography historian and professor at Rutgers University-Newark (United States), and an unpublished short story by writer Gauz'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francois-Xavier Gbre","offers":[{"title":"unsigned","offer_id":57442212577662,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signed","offer_id":57442212610430,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/2593\/1985\/files\/radio-ballast-1396112.jpg?v=1773753226"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/2593\/1985\/collections\/francois-xavier-gbre-5486079.png?v=1773755595","url":"https:\/\/www.setantabooks.com\/en-us\/collections\/francois-xavier-gbre.oembed","provider":"Setanta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}