Exhibition Information

Silver Halide Grains
2019 40×50cm

the certainty of memory-Diptych
2019 35×100cm

			Atelier Hermès presents 『Silver Memories』, an exhibition of new works of a Korean-French artist Daphné Nan Le Sergent (born in 1975) from September 6 to November 10, 2019. Born in Seoul, Daphné Nan Le Sergent lives and works in Paris, continuing her artistic and theoretical research around notions of schize and borders. By adding drawings on the photographs or by juxtaposing different two photographic images or videos, she generates (perceptual) tensions between different image areas and creates divisions, separations and boundaries. She, thus, deposits the split and the crack in the intimate space of the eye and questions the geopolitical and economic conditions that would have engendered them. For the exhibition 『Silver Memories』, Daphné Nan Le Sergent will present photographs, photo-drawings and a video based on her long-term research on the origins of images and memories. 

 The narrative of Daphné Nan Le Sergent begins a long journey eastward and westward, and then the past to the present in search of the source of silver ore. This journey, on the surface, is following the source and movement of silver ore, but at the bottom of it exists the narrative associated with analog photography, a by-product of silver ore, and recording of images through photography. In addition, another axis of this long journey of crossing East and West, going back and forth between the present and the past, overlaps with a certain gesture to follow memories and trace back to the origin of one person. In other words, this accidental, long itinerary is an inevitable attempt for Daphné Nan Le Sergent, who was born in Korea and adopted to France, to reach her own origin using a single sense imprinted in her first memory as a weak link. -Atelier Hermès