HYDROMETEORES

NEWS:

JULIET PIPER

FROM TUESDAY MARCH 18 TO FRIDAY 28

Monday to Friday from 13 p.m. to 19 p.m.

FREESTUDIOS EXHIBITION AREA

Rue Gourgas, 3. 1205 Geneva

Opening

Tuesday March 18 from 18 p.m. to 21 p.m.

Bath Night

Thursday March 20 from 18 p.m. to 21 p.m.

Finissage

Sunday March 30 from 15 p.m. to 18 p.m.

http://julietpiper.com/

François DELADERRIERE, photographer, Arles, France.

Sponsor of the exhibition

You must be able to upload your photographs. For this you also need to live, to have experience. It's a constant. Not to quote Robert Adams.

Sincerity. Contemplation. Fragility. Evanescence. Freshness. Evidence.

The world of photography today, and this is just me, has something fast about it. We consume a lot of photographs. More precisely, the time given to works during exhibitions is very short. We look. And we look at the next one. “HYDROMETEORES” changes the relationship with time. It encourages contemplation.

Juliet Piper takes a look full of metaphors with this work. It's something almost unsuspected. She takes up the challenge of finding a perfect balance in the ambiguity of a relationship between “absence” and “presence”.

The freshness and ephemerality of the mist contrast with the long life of these trees. The tranquility that resonates, the magnitude that emanates from it makes me want to breathe fully.

 “HYDROMETEORES” has come a long way. I am happy to have been asked to sponsor Juliet's exhibition. From her, I keep her kindness. I have followed his activities for several years. This exhibition is not only the culmination of a reflection but also the birth of work to come.

We feel surprisingly good in this nebula.

Juliet makes her way through a foggy forest and she knows exactly where she's going.

Transcribed by F.Taghavi

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It was in 2005, in Geneva, that we met. Through his sister. I followed Juliet PIPER's different periods from afar. From his portraits to his Parisian life, via Beirut, his encouragement of numerous artists to the century-old “emperors” and his London life.

She's a bit of a globe trotter. And for good reason, these images are taken in England, developed in Paris and shown in Geneva before hitting the road again.

It's an extraordinary thing to follow the work of an artist you love for years.

The exhibition that Juliet is preparing for us, the same one whose scope she explored in the gallery of ruins, brings a very appreciable quality of tranquility.

“HYDROMETEORES” has nothing extraterrestrial, quite the contrary. These are millennial vibrations that she has framed and that she offers to the eye.

The mist and the trees, you don't need to have been there to feel familiar in this setting. The freshness of the mist, the old age of the trees and the inconstancy of the light confront each other in this work and leave the viewer with the taste of a perfect balance.

Its “majesty the tree of the kingdom of mists”, through Juliet’s lens, is the calming of the cerebral cortex.

The works take on a new dimension when we know that few emperors survived the latest floods which ravaged the forests of England.

It seems that the British woods hold no secrets for J.PIPER.

F.Taghavi