Still Life? - PBF04 / Geneviève Gleize
15 November to 21 December 2019
Winner of the PBF Prize (Hangar front space), Geneviève Gleize tells, with Dead Grocery, the story of a still life, the remains of an abandoned grocery store, once prosperous and popular.
"If the still life was insistently the trace of the living that it does not show, it would be the exact junction between life and death, the right footprint of disappearance.” (Sabine Bouyala, writer)
Dead Grocery proposes to tell the story of a still life, the one of a grocery store abandoned for decades, formerly a place of rich, simple, popular, intense and human life. What remains today is what the viewer sees: ruins, fossils, memories, symbols. Everything in this place is dead, but everything here speaks of a vanished life.
Geneviève Gleize wants to offer an immersion in this immobile and deserted world. To that end, she adds the voice of the old owner. Photography and sound create a total immersion and bring together the dead and the living.
