Photography
Brigitte Bauer
What paths do art school students take after graduation? Going beyond administrative follow-up and statistics that provide figures, percentages, facts, and disembodied data, Brigitte Bauer decided to conduct a different kind of survey. Bridging the gap between her personal artistic practice and her teaching activities, between 2016 and 2019 she created photographic portraits of around a hundred of her former students. By visiting them where they live, the idea was to create an intimate portrait—and a portrait of a generation—of these young former students. These portraits are accompanied by a unique piece of writing: using elements of texts and notes provided by each individual, the photographer undertook the task of writing a polyphonic text in the first person. Deconstructed and reorganized into a single continuous text, the elements provided by each individual have become anonymous and not only bear witness to their professional careers but also evoke personal and even intimate details.
Vos devenirs, 2 books, 17 x 24 cm, presented in a box set, 204 pages + 96 pages, 100 four-color reproductions, paperback
Introduction by Christian Debize
Afterword by Christian Gattinoni
Co-published with the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes
