Erik Johansson, Full Moon Service, 2017 – © Erik Johansson
It is only natural that a follower of surrealism like Erik Johansson exhibits his photos in the city where this movement was born a century ago. In Paris, in the Marais, at the Swedish Institute, this creator of large format images tells us about a strange and imaginary country, his own, which resembles his native land, where the light of the North and nature, but also the elves and trolls in the undergrowth, are omnipresent.
Erik Johansson, Ideas like at night, 2021 – © Erik Johansson
The world of Erik Johansson, who was born in 1985, oscillates between shadow and light, between truth and visions, between the real and the absurd. His dreamlike scenes free up the field of possibilities and invite the viewer to question existential questions such as the climate emergency beyond borders.
Erik Johansson, Under the Corner, 2017 – © Erik Johansson
For Erik Johansson “creating an image means creating a place. A place which, at first glance, seems familiar but which nevertheless has a particularity provoking a reaction in those who look at it.” In the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, André Breton defined surrealism as a “pure psychic automatism”, allowing one to express the reality of one's thoughts, without censorship, whether through writing, drawing or any other way. For example, through photography.
Until April 24, 2022, free entry without reservation.
Ideas come at night
Swedish Institute
11, rue Payenne, 75003 Paris
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Text: Katia Barillot
09.04.22
THERE ARE LOTS OF MUSEUMS HERE
Annie Ernaux, the literature of reality at the MEP
The 2022 Nobel Prize-winning writer has been interested in photography for a long time, notably in the text “the use of photography”, a four-handed story published in 2006. At the European House of Photography, on the banks of the Seine , the exhibition Exteriors - Annie Ernaux & Photography flourishes until May 26, 2024.
The Weegee enigma, extreme photographer
American photojournalist from the 1930s and 50s, famous for his black and white photos of nightlife in New York, Weegee takes this nickname as a nod to the spirit board, the Ouija board. Because he proclaims himself a “psychic photographer” with the 3rd eye.
Joann Sfar featured at MAHJ
Who doesn’t know the comic strip “The Rabbi’s Cat”? Its creator, Joann Sfar, was born in Nice in 1971. In this retrospective at the Museum of Art and History of Judaism in the heart of the Marais, the first of its kind, we will see many original plates presented in images by the famous cat .
NOW ON THE MOOD MARSH
Divine brunch at the foot of Notre-Dame
Of course, officially, it is not the Marais. But at Son de la Terre, a barge recently moored at the Montebello quay (5th), the 4th arrondissement is in sight. Moreover, this one is incredible: on one side, it is Notre-Dame flooded with sunlight; on the other, the quays, the book sellers, the walkers, the joggers.
Saka, a cocktail bar like in Tokyo
Here is an address which gives the measure of the transformation of the Marais. And it's enough to silence the grumpy people whose mantra is: “It was better before…” No, everything was not better “before” in the Marais. Besides, there was no American bar like Saka, which cultivates a form of excellence that can only be found in Japan.
Jazz at 38Riv: The highlights of May
The only jazz club in the Marais, 38Riv is the temple of cool and swing. Rue de Rivoli, between Saint-Paul and Hôtel de Ville, its vaulted cellars are the home base of the new jazz scene. Every evening, the magic happens.