A selection of Véronique Ellena's photographs and works on glass are featured in the extensive exhibition Chambre noire, toile blanche; Photography vs. Painting at the Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, curated by Dominique Gagneux.
Since its invention, photography has maintained a close dialogue with painting, borrowing some of its conventions, formats, and artistic explorations, while helping to profoundly transform artistic practices. The boundary between the two mediums proves to be porous. Photography quickly ceased to be merely a tool or a simple rival to painting. Painting, for its part, was upended in its representational function by the emergence of the photographic image. Each observes, questions, and reinvents the other in a constant interplay of aesthetic, conceptual, and material echoes.
The exhibition notably include images from Ellena's Natures mortes series and L'herbier des Treilles, as well as previously unseen photographs on glass.
