L'étreinte, 2012
Gaëlle Girbes

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40 x 60 cm 15.7 x 23.6 inch

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40 x 60 cm 15.7 x 23.6 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Artwork location: France

By definition, tango is an improvisational dance where the two partners walk together towards an impromptu direction. Gaëlle Girbes offers a simple and delicate metaphor of the rhythm of moving bodies. His post-digital work reflects the complex geometric play of the duo thanks to the multiple overprints arranged on each of the planes of the shot. The axes and balances are fragile and tense, like the social and contemporary language of our bodily communications.
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Gaëlle Girbes, L'étreinte
France  • 1976

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Gaëlle Girbes is a French photo-journalist, born in 1976.

After having trained as a photo-journalist at EMI-CFD, Gaëlle Girbes became well-known 2006 onwards due to her POM creation (Little Multimedia work, mixing graphic creation, sound, photo and video), called «Regards de Caïds» at the «Territoires de Fictions» collective exhibition.

Her reports led her to Africa, South-East Asia and Eastern Europe but also to closer places though not easily accessible, like the circus or sports, or professional boxing or the gypsies in the Parisian region. For her, photo-journalism is most of all an adventure to meet people, whether it's about personal stories of these individuals or collective stories of these people.

Sometimes it happens that reports aren't enough, therefore she gives herself the freedom to try and transcribe more personal series like "Tango" or "Circus Life". Simultaneously, Gaëlle Girbes has also been assisting photographs namely Reza and Patrick Chuvel since 2010.
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