Paris Photo 2025: Sylvie Bonnot / Le Royaume des Moustiques

Hangar Gallery unveils Sylvie Bonnot's new series - Le Royaume des moustiques, completed at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, as part of the Elles & Cité 2025 program.

In the French Guiana Amazon, the artist went to meet the allochthonous communities who have found refuge there through the upheavals of history. Bushinenge and Hmong cosmogonies intersect here, where lianas weave the links between worlds.

Pursuing her performative approach to landscape and image, Sylvie Bonnot presents a new body of unique works created using her distinctive “moulting” process, by lifting the silver gelatin membrane from her prints. The crystallized creases in her works echo the intertwined narratives of this equatorial territory in perpetual transformation, the scene of a visceral sharing of resources.

Through the sensitive monochrome of her photographs, each of these assembled fragments of Amazonian life forms a connection with the animal and plant kingdoms.

Paris Photo - 28th edition