Author: josephi1

From June, 30th, Adelson Galleries in New York City is presenting an exhibition of 12 photographs by Joséphine Douet alongside 12 watercolors by Andrew Wyeth. Douet’s inspired “Wyeth Wonderland” series was featured at the Hudson River Museum in 2017 and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid, Spain) in 2016, and Adelson will exhibit a selection of works by both artists at their New York gallery this summer.
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The exhibition is now presented in Copenhagen after the succesfull show in Northern Jutland at the Vendsyssel Museum of Art.

Vendsyssel Museum of Art presents the exhibition The Breath of Leviathan – The creature of the sea, photo artist Joséphine Douet’s first solo exhibition in Denmark. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between nature and man and is based on the artist’s own observations of the landscape’s changes. The exhibition will run from January 29 to June 6, 2022.

The exhibition: The Breath of Leviathan – The Creature of the Sea with the French contemporary artist Joséphine Douet (b. 1972) focuses on the relationship between nature and man in the Anthropocene age and is based on the artist’s own observations of landscape changes in and around Vendsyssel, Denmark. Joséphine Douet lives in Paris but spends much of the year in Vendsyssel. In recent years, she has seen the landscape disappear because of the ongoing climate changes. The exhibition wants to make these changes visible through the images of art and at the same time invite reflection and conversation about the consequences of climate change for both nature and man.

In Vendsyssel, the landscape is particularly exposed to influences from the weather – a process that has been exacerbated by climate change, of which the severe winter storms of recent years are just one example. The country is shrinking with disturbing force, and villages that once lay several hundred metres from the coast are now disappearing in the waves. It is these changes in the landscape that the exhibition confronts the audience with. The photographic works treat the erosion of the landscape in a reduced colour palette, which simultaneously conveys a mood of an almost metaphysical nature. The metaphysical aspect – that nature contains a force leaving man powerless – is a recurring theme in the exhibition. The title The Breath of Leviathan – The Creature of the Sea also emphasises this,as itreferences the Old Testament, in which a mythical creature eats into the shore and thus foretells the doom of the world. In addition to the photographic works, the audience can experience a larger installation as well as a video work in the exhibition.

For the exhibition, a richly illustrated publication is published with Joséphine Douet’s photographic artworks and texts by author Josefine Klougart.

Confinement is the world that stops. The tragic unity of place, time and action. A curtain-up scene where nothing happens. Or maybe it is.
Each image of her daily life photographed by Joséphine Douet during the first months of the first confinement in 2020 is a still life, a baroque memento mori, an hourglass constantly flipped to remind us that everything can stop except time. A closed camera for this theater of objects, this cabinet of wonders where the agony of things is also a return of life in new forms.

Joséphine Douet’s new series Pourritures Nobles (Noble Rot) will be at Anne Clergue Galerie September 17-October 15, 2021.

Press release.

Josephine Douet’s new project “The Breath of Leviathan” has been granted the support of Institut Français in Paris, as part as the Relance Export 2021 program for its development in Denmark. The project will be shown there in 2022.