In The Shadows

Group show with Madanie, Nadezhda Ermakova, Camille Millerand, Ulises Tapia et Jawarlan Bolo.
At Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center, Gymnase Manouchian, OMJA, Médiathèque Saint-John Perse, Service Municipal Jeunesse.

From the 8th of June to the 9th of September 2024
Opening on the 8th of June from 4pm till 8pm.

The exhibition In the Shadows gathers together photographs by Madanie, Nadezhda Ermakova, Camille Millerand, Ulises Tapia and Jawarlan Bolo. More than 70 images are displayed in 5 different locations: at the Gymnase Manouchian, at the OMJA, in the Médiathèque (Media Library) Saint-John Perse, at the Service Municipal Jeunesse Saint-John Perse, and in the shop window of the Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center.

From boxing to basketball, pétanque to chess, the exhibition photographs highlight athletes, players, amateurs who train for the sake of it, for self-transcendence, for collective achievement or simply for pleasure.

This exhibition is a tribute to the sports people, the practitioners, the coaches, the sites wardens, and all the people who contribute to the very existence of those sports and activities. The project forms part of the Olympiade Culturelle supported by the Ile-de France Region.

Art curation: Guillaume Breton and Anne Lechevalier

Camille Millerand was born in France in 1983. He lives in Montreuil.

Freelance photographer since 2007, he regularly collaborates with the French press media (Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Télérama).  He simultaneously develops personal projects as part of a long-term process between Algeria, France, Ivory Coast and Cameroun. He has also codirected documentaries: Derwisha (2018), Premier de Corvée (2020).

His work was shown: Abidjan, ça dort pas la nuit (Abidjan, no rest at night), MuCAT, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (2024) ; Bled Runner, Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland (2021) ;  Le Monde en 3 rues (The World in 3 Streets), The Month of Photography of the  Grand Paris Conservatoire CRR93 Commune Theatre, Aubervilliers (2017) ; Chroniques algériennes (Algerian Chronicles) , Festival Les Photaumnales, Beauvais (2013) ; Jeunesse(s) ( Youth.s), Cultural Centre of Gênes, Italy ( Palazzo Ducal) (2013) ; Bucarest-Mihai Bravu : une jeunesse partagée (Bucarest-Mihai Bravu: A shared Youth) Bar Floréal Galerie, Paris (2008) ; Bamako-Paris, Été Photographique de Lectoure (Photographic Summertime of Lectoure) (2007). In 2019, his work is integrated within the agnès b collection.  Camille Millerand’s archival images can be seen via Divergence images platform.

Madanie was born in France in 1985. He lives and works in Aubervilliers.

Photographer, director and trainer. His artistic work is inspired by working-class neighbourhoods, especially within Aubervilliers where he was born and has lived for 38 years. Under the guidance of OMJA as part of the Generation Court programme, he is then followed by Gindou Cinéma as part of his writer’s residency La Ruche (2013). He then trains as a documentary filmmaker at the Ateliers Varan in Paris in 2016 and directs the short documentary film Le Gaston. He joins the FEMIS residency in 2017 and directs Nordine Des Presles. In 2012, his photographic series Les P’tits Cailloux (Small Pebbles) is shown at the Gindou Cinéma.

Nadezhda Ermakova was born in 1985 in Russia. She lives and studies in Paris.

She graduates in Literature Studies in 2007 at the Saint Petersburg State University, starts her photography practice in 2018 and integrates the Rodchenko Art School in Moscow in 2019 followed by the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy in 2022. She is now in her fifth year at the ENSAPC and is a member of the Atelier des artistes en exil (Exiled Artists Studio).

Her work occupies the social and political fields and is more specifically concerned with migratory flows. She has won and been selected for different prizes: Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards, Kassel Dummy Award, Riga Self Publish, BarTur Photo Award, Gomma Grant, Felix Schoeller Award, etc. She is also an alumnus at the Agence VII.

Her projects were shown at the Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center (Aubervillers, France); the State Historical Museum of Moscow (Moscow, Russia); Cultural Foundation Ekaterina (Moscou, Russie) ; ISSP Gallery (Riga, Lettonie) ; NOKS Art Space (Istanbul, Turquie) ; Form gallery (Le Cap, Afrique du Sud) ; United Nations office (New York, États-Unis).

Ulises Tapia was born in 2000 in Nicaragua. He lives and studies in Paris.

After completing 3 years at the Fine Arts School in Managua, he enrols at the ENSAPC in 2022. His work explores identity-driven, historical and political concepts, whilst critically questioning Nicaraguan society and the rest of humanity.

His practice feeds on post-internet movements, on post-truth, hyper-consumerism, and on “non things”, on Slavoj Žižek, Zygmunt Bauman et Byung-Chul Han philosophy too as well as of the psychiatrist et psychanalyst Jacques Lacan. Multifaceted, his work includes many mediums such as drawing, painting, sculpture, video and photography.

His work was shown in France: Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center, Aubervilliers (2024) ; In Nicaragua: Spanish Cultural Center, Managua (2021) : Alliance Française, Managua (2021).

Jawarlan Bolo was born in 2000. He works and lives in Aubervilliers.

Videographer and freelance film maker, Jawarlan Bolo captures urban life and the everyday events. He is passionate about cinema, and inspiration within science-fiction and thriller genres. His passion feeds the stories he tells us through his video camera.

His career path involves a two-year training course at Tremplin Numérique (professional integration in Boulogne-Billancourt) as a camera op. His work was recently shown during “Les Couleurs du Court” (“The colours of the Short”) festival.

Centre d’art Ygrec-ENSAPC
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Gymnase Manouchian
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OMJA Espace Multimédia
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Médiathèque Saint-John Perse
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93300 Aubervilliers
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Service Municipal Jeunesse
22 rue Bernard et Mazoyer
93300 Aubervilliers
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