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
Wednesday to Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 18:00 p.m.
Tel: +01 44 78 80 20 XNUMX
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 .
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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.
The Enfants Rouges market, everyone loves it
Restaurants, merchants, a photo store, a bookstore... This is how the Red Children's Market presents itself, unique in its kind in the Marais and its capital because it is the only one to offer such a varied and varied range of restaurants. qualitative.
The Marais Jewish quarter in Paris
From the 13th century, the Marais was home to a Jewish community which remained there until its expulsion in the 14th century. Fleeing poverty and persecution, Jews from Eastern countries and those from Alsace settled there in the 19th century. Around rue des rosiers and Place Saint-Paul renamed Pletz…