The gallery of Aliança Francesa Botafogo presents the exhibition “Insouciance: Transatlantic Youth”, by French photographer Vincent Rosenblatt
The show features about 90 photographs produced in France and Brazil between 1997 to 2021, about the youth of the two countries
Highlighted, the unprecedented series of young people from multicultural origins made in city of niort, central west of France, and “Waterfalls” (2000-2002), another unpublished work that portrays the cariocas in the waterfalls of the urban forest of Rio de Janeiro. A snippet of the renowned series “Rio Baile Funk” (2005-2021), long-term work carried out in the funk carioca world complements the exhibition.
The exhibition will also be marked by the launch of the book “Rio Baile Funk” which will be launched in May at the Aliança Francesa Gallery.
Insouciance Transatlantic Youth
Photographs by Vincent Rosenblatt
1997 – 2021
Opening Day 14 April – 6:30 p.m.
By 18 th July 2022
Free Entry
French Alliance Gallery Botafogo
Rua Muniz Barreto, 730, Botafogo – RJ.
The is the gallery Alliance Française Botafogo in partnership with Embassy of France and the Institut Français open to the public in Thursday, day 14 April, to exhibition “carelessness: Transatlantic Youth”, the French photographer Vincent Rosenblatt. The show features about 90 photographs of the series produced by Rosenblatt between 1997 to 2021, in France and in Brazil, where there lies 20 years. The photographs portray a little of his professional trajectory and his look towards the youth of both countries., through the years in which he lived experiences in different territories.
“This exhibition is an opportunity to have an introspective look at my work. It's almost a self-analysis in which I discover certain visual obsessions that sustain my gaze throughout the 25 recent years in different territories. It also shows how much my coming to Brazil influenced my work. Many things developed in Brazil were already gestating in France, but only here they bloomed. This exhibition also emphasizes the presence of the search for affection and ecstatic or profane trance states in my photography.”, says Vincent Rosenblatt.
Between France and Brazil, Vincent Rosenblatt – resident there 20 years in Rio de Janeiro. In 1998 and then in 2015, he has benefited from two creative residencies at the CACP (Center for Art and Photographic Creation) from the city of Niort, with 60.000 inhabitants in western France. The second was a commission from the region's city hall and the Ministry of Culture. The work done with an interval of 17 years is condensed under the heading: “wesh – The breach”. wesh – a word from Algerian Arabic that became French slang – It is a species of “Hello, alright?”. Already The breach is the crossroads and central square of Niort, where young people from multicultural backgrounds meet, leave, flirt or get bored while waiting for the bus.
The exhibition includes other series and experiments, highlighting a series of portraits of cariocas in the waterfalls of the urban forest of Rio de Janeiro, produced from 2000 and 2002, during the photographer's first stays in Rio. A clipping of his well-known long-term work “Rio Baile Funk” (begun in 2005) complete the exposure. This series will be released as a book, on 11 de Mayo, at the Alliance Française Gallery during the exhibition period.
The search for a state of ecstasy or trance and affections weaves a link between the series presented in the show Insouciance Transatlantic Youth: be caused by the sound, music or the immersion of bodies in the fresh water of Rio's waterfalls, in communion with nature, or even in the melee of couples at funk dances.
*Insouciance doesn't have a really satisfactory translation in Portuguese. “Lightness” – levity would be the closest word, but it's not a good translation, which is usually done with other words, with a negative connotation that does not exist in the French word.
Rosenblatt's photographs take over the French Alliance of Botafogo. beyond the gallery, the spectator will be able to glimpse the incredible work of the artist inside the Institution.
The exhibition – ace series:
wesh, the breach
In 2015, at the invitation of the Municipality of Niort, of the French region Nouvelle Aquitaine and the Ministry of Culture, Vincent Rosenblatt did a creative residency at CACP Villa-Pérochon (Center for Art and Photographic Creation), with the mission of photographing the youth of the city of Niort (60.000 inhabitants) in the center west of the country. Then, exhibited the work under the title of “wesh – The breach”. wesh – a word from Algerian Arabic that became French slang – It is a species of “Hello, alright?”. Already The breach is the crossroads and central square of Niort, where young people from multicultural backgrounds meet, leave, flirt or get bored while waiting for the bus.
The photographer quickly made his day-to-day images available to his models., who published them commented and reedited on social networks.
with Alice, Alain, Alvin, Anais, Amber, Antoine, Barbara, Bastien, Charlie, Chloe, Creezy, Longed for, Eve, Fafa, Flavie, Goduine, Hayette, Henri, Jessica, Karl, Kenza, Kevin, Laureen, Margot, Megane, Leah, Lionel, Loic, Luca, Lionel, Trunk, Mamadou, Marcia, Margot, Marion, Michel, Naomi, Yacine, Yoann, Sorenza..
Seventeen years before the series “wesh – The breach”, Vincent was selected for the traditional Meetings of young international photography (Meetings of young international photography) in the same city, a short residency where the topic is free. Wandering one night in the city's central square, he knows Candy, her sister Christine and their friend, Fatima. Vincent inaugurates something new for him there – a way of being with young people, photographing them without interfering or directing anything, accompanying them in their daily lives, with your crushes, playing in an abandoned educational center, or at their home, meeting the family. This black and white series is divided between the gallery space and the living room. 4 of the French Alliance of Botafogo.
This work remained in the memory of the inhabitants of Niort, so much so that they called Vincent again in 2015 to do, this time officially, a photo mission about the city's youth.
On the first day in Paris by Olga Kokorina, young man from the city of Irkutsk in Siberia, Vincent takes the first photo containing a kind of trance or ecstasy – this time linked to the music. This photo was part of the exhibition “Faces and Expressions, aspects contemporain”, at the National Higher School of Fine Arts in Paris (ENSBA), in 1999. The author's enlargement exposed in this exhibition is a vintage of this time, brought with him to Brazil at the beginning of the 2000.
In 1997, watching the work of theater director Vyacheslav Kokorin with young actors in the city of Ulan-Ude, in the republic of Buryatia (region of Siberia south of Lake Baikal and north of Mongolia), Vincent comes into contact with the vast Russian tradition of theatrical training: the actor's work, and often, it is to give birth to the emotion in the body before being verbalized. This vast tradition and methods derived from Russian literature and theater before the revolution of 1917 gave birth to the Actor's Studio and the Hollywood tradition, across the Atlantic.
In 1999, visiting New York together with his ENSBA workshop group (National School of fine arts) of Paris, he drives a friend, Y.B. Filming in Super 8, he tries to make her perform a trance state, summoning their memories of the theatrical method observed in Siberia. Dissatisfied with the narrative of the short film, Vincent chooses to return to still images, re-photographing the film frames with your last roll of Polachrome, film whose production had been stopped years earlier by the manufacturer. The expired film is responsible for accidents and scratches in the images, making the portraits even more present.
waterfalls 2000-2002
In your first stays in Rio de Janeiro, Vincent accompanies colleagues, friends or the family of students from his then project Olhares do Morro in the waterfalls of Horto and Paineras. There, encounters and documents a relationship between the body and nature, a peculiar delivery.
Rio Baile Funk 2005-2021
At the exhibition, Vincent Rosenblatt presents an excerpt of his long-term work in the funk carioca world and in the black parties. when entering 2005 your first dance, the photographer experienced a kind of epiphany. The delivery and choreographed trances of the funkista youth gave him the certainty of having found a universe that he would occupy “for a long time”. In this cut, Vincent presents, among other images, a polyptych concentrating sarradas, kisses, wishes, trances and affections. There you can find all the themes already present in his previous works..
Vincent Rosenblatt
Was born in 1972 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. While studying History and Anthropology at the Sorbonne, travels several times to Poland and even Siberia, developing his first photographic work. Start working as a photojournalist, porém ingressa na National School of Fine Arts em 1997, discovering Brazil on an exchange made with a Collin-Lefranc scholarship, at FAAP in São Paulo between 1999 and 2000.
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From 2002 to 2008 develops the project “Olhares do Morro” (www.olharesdomorro.org) on Santa Marta hill in Rio de Janeiro, that will see young photographers appearing at the Arles photography meetings, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, in Stockholm or even in Art Basel / Miami Beach.
One of his visual research sites is the carioca scene of the Bailes Funk, which documents from 2005. A work in constant evolution, that faith exposto na European House of Photography em 2011, in the creative invasion “Made by.. made by brazilians” in Matarazzo City in São Paulo in 2014, in CAHO (Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica) at the Ser Carioca collective – at the Museum of Art (MAR) of Rio de Janeiro, at the press conference “River, a french passion” e em retrospective individual no Center for Art and Photographic Creation – Vila Perochon de Niort, in France. He was part of the collective «Historias Afro-Atlânticas» at MASP in 2018. In 2019 exhibited a retrospective of his work in Rio de Janeiro (night fever) at the Panama City International Cultural Center and at 2020 at Galeria da Gavea.
In June 2022 will present its retrospective at the Galerie du Passage / Pierre Passebon in Paris. This year he also publishes his first photobooks: Rio Baile Funk, on 11 May at Aliança Francesa and Bate-bola – Rio Carnaval Secreto at the publishing house {Lp} press.
Vincent Rosenblatt's works are part of the permanent collection of public institutions such as Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the CACP Vila Pérochon, and is represented internationally in several private collections.
His work has been published in the New York Times (Lens), National Geographic, The world, People of Photography, GUP, Release, Courrier International, Today's business, Republic of Women, Poster- Mir, among others.
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French Alliance Gallery Botafogo
Photographic exhibition
Insouciance Transatlantic Youth – By Vincent Rosenblatt (1997 2021)
Opening Day 14 April – Thursday
Time: 18h30
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By 18 th July 2022
Alliance Française Gallery
Rua Muniz Barreto, 746 – Botafogo
From 14/04 to 18/07
Visitation schedules: Mon to Fri – 10 h to 20h / Sat – 9h to 12:00
Free Entry
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