delpire & co

For the Paris Ass Book Fair, delpire & co is presenting an extension of Bérangère Fromont’s exhibition République, featuring a series of posters by the artist, the launch and signing of her new book published by Chose Commune, a selection of works that resonate with her, and other surprises.

In Bérangère Fromont’s photographs, a splendid silence floods the bodies captured in their momentum. They are permeated by thousands of details that unlock the stammering of the image and bring reality into the interstice of the visible. The entire body enters into resistance; it rumbles beneath the visible, and we perceive only its waves—sharp shockwaves touched by the grace of cropping. The body as a whisper, power as a breath. Space catches its breath, and it is this suspension of air that resists all the forms of the image we are meant to accept. Photography operates in resistance here, for it imposes the rhythm of the off-screen as the only possible time. We do not see, and everything remains open.

There are no words in Bérangère’s work. The image is there, powerful enough to hold all the possibilities of the world. She freezes and frames bodies in tension, whose gazes and movements we can sense without grasping the reason why. They are elusive, and that is precisely what Bérangère captures. Power through detail, the minute down to the point of delirium, for there is indeed a madness in fixing these bodies with our gaze until we feel them welling up in the silver grain. All this noise makes the light arrive. And the moment is born. She seizes it on the edge of chaos to traverse the night. Language stumbles; there are no more words, and only presence imposes itself, in that hellish moment of the fall where everything is still possible—like the shattering, like the surge.