Martin d'Orgeval

MARTIN D’ORGEVAL June 4 – July 22, 2022

MARTIN D’ORGEVAL June 4 – July 22, 2022

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Martin d’Orgeval’s practice realizes the ethereal, illusory threads of perception that link visions of the everyday to distinct moments of photographic witnessing. His dreamlike, cerebral images inhabit an ambiguous realm between the intimate and the universal, favoring the enigma of questioning over definite resolution. The works in this exhibition present subjects ranging from the deeply personal to the collectively experienced; drawing on senses of touch, memory, and intuition, his photographs center viewers within the crystallized present of our own existence.

D’Orgeval’s newest daguerreotypes were conceived from the fingerprint impression of friend’s placed over the image of their already exposed hand. The indexical trace of each finger is doubled against the exposure of the person’s hand, a ghosted presence overlapping through a perpetual realization of light.

Malcolm Daniel, Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on d’Orgeval’s Témoin/Witness (Matilde), 2021: Like the relationship between a handprint on a cave wall and the hand itself, photography is often discussed as a direct imprint of reality rather than an interpretation of it. Martin d’Orgeval has taken this idea in one of its most common analogies—“photography is to the real world as a fingerprint is to a finger”—and made it visible in a simple but mind-twisting way. He chose the daguerreotype process as the ideal vehicle, for its evocation of the origins of photography, for its mirror-like reflectiveness, for its entrancing illusion of three-dimensions, and for its delicate surface.

Working under d’Orgeval’s instruction, master daguerreotypist Jerry Spagnoli photographed the hand and finger of d’Orgeval’s friend Matilde and had her touch the surface of the plate with her finger. The fingerprint locates the surface of the plate and heightens the illusion of the hand hovering just an inch behind.

In Witnesses (2019) and 354 (2011), d’Orgeval reflects on specific encounters in time and their reverberations as both intimate and universal. The vision of a dust-covered windshield on a car in 354 struck d’Orgeval as particularly melancholy, suggesting a state of fossilization and suspension against the passage of time and the bustling world that surrounds it. Witnesses presents a scene framed within the context of national catastrophe and communal devastation: the burning and collapse of the spire of Notre-Dame Cathedral, in April 2019. As crowds filled the streets in awe and horror, d’Orgeval photographed a group watching from the banks along the river Seine. Within this moment of collective stasis, the act of witnessing maintains an urgency of mortality, evoking an implicit farewell in the memory of disintegration.

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Martin d’Orgeval was born in 1973 in Paris, where he currently lives and works. Recent notable exhibitions include shows at Galerie Hussenot Paris, New Galerie, and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.

His work is included in the public collections of Fonds National d’Art Contemporain and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.

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He, 2022 Body prints on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

She, 2022 Body prints on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

354, 2011 Gelatin silver print, artist frame 39.125 x 52.5 inches (99.3 x 133.3cm)

Irisha,, 2022 Irisha Finger print on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Witness (Jules #3), #3), 2021 Palm & finger prints on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Miles and Clotilde, Clotilde, 2022 Finger print on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Miles’ Hand, Hand, 2022 Finger print on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

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Diane, 2022 Finger print on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Irisha’s Hand, 2022 Finger print on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Liz 1, 2022 Finger print on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Blue Moon 3, 2022 Daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Blue Moon 5, 2022 Daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Blue Moon 2, 2022 Daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Blue Moon 4, 2022 Daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Blue Moon 6, 2022 Daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 8.5 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Witnesses (Notre-Dame de Paris), 2019 Wallpaper Dimensions variable

They, 2022 Body print on daguerreotype (copper), glass, aluminum 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

MARTIN D’ORGEVAL

Born 1973, Paris, France Works in Paris and New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Martin d’Orgeval, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, June 4 – July 22, 2022 Notre-Dame de Paris 15.04.19, Conciergerie, Paris, France, March 19 – August 28, 2022 2021 Fantômes et Témoins, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, April 30 – June 12, 2021 2018 Sur Face, with a text by Erri De Luca, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, November 3, 2018 –

January 12, 2019 Martin d’Orgeval, Galerie du Passage, Paris, France, January 26 – February 24, 2018 2016 Revoir, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, September 7 – October 30, 2016 Martin d’Orgeval, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK, June 5 – September 25, 2016 2014 Revoir, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, November 15, 2014 – January 5, 2015 2010 Establishment Forever, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, November 14 – December 10, 2010 The Soul, Q, curated by The Drawbridge, London, UK, March 11, 2010 2009 Touched by Fire, Adamson Gallery, Washington DC, March 21 – April 30, 2009 Touché par le Feu, Deyrolle, Paris, France, April – May 2009 Touched by Fire, Black’s, curated by The Drawbridge, London, UK 2008 Réquisitoire, Maison de la Photographie, Lille, France, March 6 – April 20, 2008 2007 Réquisitoire, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, October 10, 2007 –

January 6, 2008 Pâques, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, February 17 – March 15, 2007 2006 Pâques, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy, June 1 - 30, 2006 Pâques, Scuderie Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome, Italy, January 31 – February 14, 2006

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 21, curated by Nikita Sereda, Galerie Lepeuve, Clichy, France, September 21 – October 3, 2021 Backgrounds: Impressions Photographiques IV, organised by Olivier Renaud-Clément, Peter

Freeman, Inc., New York, NY, June 19 – July 30, 2021 2020 Smells Like Teen Spirit, New Galerie, Paris, France, May 15 – July 11, 2020 Mechanics of Skin, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, January 25 – February 28, 2020 2019 Immatéralité, curated by Domitille d’Orgeval, with a poem by Atiq Rahimi, Topographie de l’Art,

Paris, France, September 7 – November 2, 2019 Let Us In: Together, curated by Taras Sereda, 107 Rue Henri Barbusse, Clichy, France,

September 26, 2019 2018 Great, Great, Great... Again!, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, January 27 – February 24, 2018 La Photographie française existe... Je l’ai rencontrée, curated by Jean-Luc Monterosso, Maison

européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, March 7 – May 20, 2018 2017 Houghton’s Emperors : Portraits and power, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK,

February 2 – April 23, 2017 A Removeable Feast, Galerie Eric Hussenot, Paris, France, March 11 – April 18, 2017 2014 De Zee. Salut d’honneur à Jan Hoet (The Sea. Tribute to Jan Hoet), curated by Jan Hoet,

Ostende, Belgium, October 23, 2014 – April 19, 2015 53

2014 Back grounds: Impressions Photographiques (2), curated by Olivier Renaud Clément, Andrea

Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, June 28 – August 15, 2014 La même terre nous garde, Maison Euzéby, Russan, France 2013 House of Vettii, Koenig & Clinton, New York, NY, December 12, 2013 – January 18, 2014 Paris Photo, Galerie Hussenot, Grand Palais, Paris, France, November 14 – 17, 2013 Middle Gate Geel’ 13, curated by Jan Hoet, The Halle, Geel, Belgium, September 28 –

December 22, 2013 Nuage, Musée Réattu, Arles, France, May 16 – October 31, 2013 Anna Pahlavi – Medium Dreamers, Galerie Pangée, Montréal, QC, Canada, May 3 – June 16, 2013 2012 La ferme des animaux, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France, May 15 – July 23, 2012 Flowers For You, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY, June 27 – August 12, 2012 Paris Photo, Galerie Hussenot, Grand Palais, Paris, France, November 15 – 18, 2012 2011 Barney Kulok: 11.11.11.11, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, November 11, 2011 – January 4, 2012 ArtRio, Galerie Hussenot, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 8 – 11, 2011 L’objet photographique, une invention permanente, Maison Européenne de la Photographie,

Paris, France, April 20 – June 19, 2011 Diane von Furstenberg: Journey of a dress, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China, April 3 – May 14, 2011;

traveled to: Wilshire May Company Building - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, January 11 –

May 1, 2014 Art Dubai, Galerie Hussenot, Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai, UAE Armory Show, Galerie Hussenot, New York, NY, March 3 – 6, 2011 2010 From his feet upward into a landscape of flame, Some/things Secret, Paris, France,

November 19, 2010 – January 16, 2011 Le Labomaton, Les Prairies de Paris, curated by Laetitia Ivanez and Fred Lebain Barney Kulok, François-Marie Banier, Joel Sternfeld, Moyra Davey, Martin d’Orgeval, Stephen Shore, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France, November 20, 2010 – January 7, 2011 Steidl. Quand la photo devient livre. De Robert Frank à Karl Lagerfeld, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris,

France, November 9 – December 19, 2010 2009 18 Mammals, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC, September 11 – November 20, 2009 2008 Notabene, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin, curated by Hubertus von Ameluxen and Dieter Appelt,

September 20 – November 16, 2008 Nature fragile, le Cabinet Deyrolle, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France,

November 4 – 13, 2008 2007 Ce qui bouge ne se voit pas, curated by Françoise Paviot, Festival Transphotographiques, Tri

Postal, Lille, France Nuit Blanche Off, Paris, France, October 6, 2007 2006 Formen + Felder, Schwarze Kunstwerke aus der Sammlung Biedermann, Städtische Galerie,

Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, November 19, 2006 – January 28, 2007

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

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