"A corpus is not a discourse, and it is not a narrative. It is a corpus that it would be necessary here. Here, there is like a promise that it must be about the body, that it will be about him, there, almost without delay. A kind of promise that will neither be the object of a treatise, nor the subject of quotations and recitations, nor the character or the setting of a story. There is, to say the least, a kind of promise to remain silent." Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher

Seven women artists explore issues of body and identity, resistance to alienation and reification, resilience and emancipation, the body as seen and the body as shown, the relationship between bodies, in public and intimate space, between human and non-human bodies, between bodies and architecture, the encounter between body and history.

EXHIBITED ARTISTS
Florence Chevallier, Hannah Darabi, Farida Hamak, Mouna Karray, Fatima Mazmouz, Edith Roux, Anaëlle Vanel.

« Corpus » est un choix dans les acquisitions récentes d’œuvres photographiques du Centre national des arts plastiques.

This year at Paris Photo, the Cnap will unveil a number of acquisitions from exhibiting galleries marked with the label ‘Acquisition of the Cnap’. The Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), a public institution of the French Ministry of Culture, actively supports the dissemination and promotion of contemporary photography and provides ressources and funds to photographers, artists and professionals in the field through various creative initiatives. CNAP collections are enriched through acquisitions and commissions, thus participating directly in the economy of this sector.

The national photographic commission “Regards du Grand Paris” supported by the Ateliers Médicis and the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) since 2016 is reaching the middle of its decade. This conference will be an opportunity to look back on the first five years of the works produced within the framework of this commission by the initiators of the project. On the eve of a first exhibition, two artists will share their experiences.  

The conference will be moderated by Pascal Beausse, head of the photography collection at Cnap. With photographers Aurore Bagarry (Les formes de l'eau project, 2020-2021, year 4) and Karim Kal (Ligne Dée project, 2017, year 1). 

Launched in 2016, for a period of 10 years and with a minimum of one commission to six photographers per year, this commission invites emerging authors evolving in the broad field of documentary still photography to develop an artistic project that participates in the new urban and social representations of the Paris metropolis. It is open to the diversity of contemporary photographic practices and aims to build, year after year, a body of images and views of authors on the evolution of Greater Paris. 

JUNE 2022 

At the Magasins Généraux and in the Greater Paris 
EXHIBITION "VIEWS OF GREATER PARIS” 
A LOOK BACK AT THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF COMMISSIONS

The Ateliers Médicis and the Cnap, together with the Magasins Généraux and the Société du Grand Paris, are preparing for spring 2022 an exhibition entitled "Regards du Grand Paris", a review of the first five years of this photographic commission (from 2016 to 2021).  

A total of 35 projects of the winners will be exhibited, some at the Magasins Généraux in Pantin, others throughout the public space of Greater Paris from June 23 to October 23, 2022. 

This national commission, by confronting and crossing the views of multiple photographers, offers a demanding and popular artistic vision, addressed to the inhabitants of Greater Paris or to all those who cross it.