Karim Kal
Photographe
Karim Kal est né en 1977 à Genève d’un père algérien et d’une mère française. Il vit et travaille à Lyon. Il a étudié à l’école d’art d’Avignon, puis à celle de Grenoble avant d’être diplômé de l’école de photographie de Vevey, en Suisse. À travers des matériaux qui sont le bâti et l’environnement urbain, Karim Kal interroge les notions de mouvements migratoires, d’identités territoriales et les modes de représentations photographiques de ces notions. Il a montré notamment son travail à L’institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne ou au Musée nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration à Paris ou à la Biennale de Lyon, 2019.
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Karim Kal / Clément Chéroux
For the past fifteen years, Karim Kal has been developing his work from a documentary perspective. The descriptive nature of photography is nuanced by his work with light and composition. His photographs offer an indexical understanding of the territory, seeking a balance between elements that allow for a social and political reading of the subject and a formal economy that draws on the vocabulary of abstraction.
Many of the photographs taken with a view camera were shot in working-class neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities such as Lyon, Paris, and Algiers. A record of forms, Karim Kal's images simultaneously refer to the idea of the relegation of suburban territories and to a pictorial formalism evoking the geometric abstractions of the 1970s and 1980s.
This first monograph is accompanied by an unpublished text by photography historian Clément Chéroux.
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24×30 cm, 196 pages, approximately 100 color reproductions, French/English, hardcover
ISBN 9782843140129
Produced with the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC).
Graphic design: L’Atelier d’édition
ISBN: 9782843140129