OUT OF PRINT

First edition
17,5 X 24 cm
Softcover with flaps
108 pages
74 photographies
French - English
February 2019
ISBN: 978-2-490740-02

IL FERA LONGTEMPS CLAIR CE SOIR
Élise Toïdé

Text by Magali Aubert

This texture is her 35mm film camera’s, with which she has been trying to “devour” the Jean Moulin-Les Guilands park. She wanders, with one two film rolls in her bag to charge the camera. This Canon 500 was her first camera. She likes the fact that it is not precious. The sound of the vivid day fans out and vanishes, Elise captures fragments of it, intensifies a familiar place, estranging it from a daily routine. In this place where the beats of the city can be heard in the distance, she seeks an incomplete representation that leaves room for the imagination to wander. She wants this place to be hers yet elusive. “The images must be traces, like ghosts. At first, I just see empty meaningless shapes then they progressively become lively. They begin to make sense, to belong to me as I return. As time passes, these shapes mingle, are transformed and distorted. By coming back regularly, I set up a repetition, I create a never-ending story, a perpetual renewal, pretty close to the renewal of a daily routine.
The horizon has changed since she began this series in 2013. The white facades of the towers located below the “Quartier de la Noue” have been renovated and now look ochre, behind this road so simple and so frequently followed.
In 1901, Anna de Noailles used to enjoy the shadows and watch for the carps in the Parc Monceau. Monceau, Montreuil, a century and a decade. A movement from the east to the west within Paris, which brings together two women who capture the familiar landscapes that dazzle them.  And yet something in life has changed.

Bio
 
Elise Toïdé's work deploys poetic and collaborative spaces, she attaches as much to the intimate as to the public by confronting it with emotions and memories that move it, increase it, lose it or reinvent it. These images leave an almost unlimited freedom like fragments that can be moved, cut, mounted, substituted for each other.
Here, what makes the story is precisely what is not in the image, what the spectator will add to it, will imagine. In the isolated photos of Elise Toïdé the narrative is therefore only potential.



Exhibitions

2022
Coco. Marjorie Gosset, Anne Loubet, Elise Toïdé. Paris.
2019
Eyd Paris. Il fera longtemps clair ce soir. Paris.
2016
Haute à Porter. Hasselt.
2014
Wanderlust. Manifesto. Paris.
2012
Face Up. David Armstrong, Elise Toïdé, Romina Shama. Majestic Hôtel, Cannes.

Expositions
2022
Coco. Marjorie Gosset, Anne Loubet, Elise Toïdé. Paris.
2019
Eyd Paris. Il fera longtemps clair ce soir. Paris.
2016
Haute à Porter. Hasselt.
2014
Wanderlust. Manifesto. Paris.
2012
Face Up. David Armstrong, Elise Toïdé, Romina Shama. Majestic Hôtel, Cannes.

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