the exhibition can be seen on the website of the gallery
galerie vrais rêves
www.vraisreves.com
Bénédicte R is a photographer, and as with the majority of photographers, she works on a concept. The final shot is the result of the staging, the mental image founded in her mind. You do not see this work, and especially not in “Vrais Reves” which goes much farther in her photographic approach, giving other galleries a sense of what we could call triviality. She is also a ceramicist and expertly handles rötring, layering,
and carbon copying. This renders her work unique, not only in terms of the concept, but also in the work. A photo, image of a “true” reality, is but a means among many for creating the “ideal” image.
Bénédicte Reverchon, amateur clarinetist, left to play with 70 musicians in Romania
in 1992, not long after the fall of Ceausescu. Shocked by the state of the country, she photographed the stigmata for her personal album (the dissertation), and returned with a series of 33 folklore LP that have given her a great memory of the family of musicians with whom she stayed with. End of Act I…
Recently, many Romanians have occupied shut-down factories and sites near her. Cue another photo series. She takes this material to touch them up in the course of two years with rötring and her computer.
On one hand the photos and the record sleeves, on the other hand, the vinyls themselves to make a mark on a carbon copy and to create delicate reproductions, at the same time rigid yet living on tissue paper. End of Act II…
Xavier Rouquin
If you are familiar with the “Vrai Reves” gallery, then the work of Bénédicte Reverchon is not completely stranger to you. She took part in a collective exhibition and in 2005 presented a monograph with “les lumières de la ville” which blends drawing and traditional film. She continues this choice of mixed technique with the help of a deep contemplation of time, memory, the evolution of our society, and most importantly on the “traces”, “marks”, “accumulations” that remain after this evolution: “la mue et le caméléon” is a must-see.
