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Vernissage: Thursday, 16 April, 8–9 pm

GROUP EXHIBITION
CURATED BY UGO CASUBOLO FERRO

LIGHT THEORIES

Exhibition on view from 16 April to 2 May 2026

Exhibition Views

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Exhibition view of Light Theories,

Ithaque, Paris, France, 2026​

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Left to right: Sébastien Reuzé, Mascleta DSF2814 (2024); Martin Depalle, Map (2026); Ralf Marsault & Heino Müller, Godz, Berlin Wagenburg am Engelbecken 1993 (1993).

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Exhibition view of Light Theories,

Ithaque, Paris, France, 2026​

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Left to right: Ugo Casubolo Ferro, Untitled (2026); Sixtine de Thé, Pellicules aveugles (2021–2025); Sixtine de Thé, Pellicules aveugles (2021–2025); Sébastien Reuzé, Mascleta DSF2811 (2024).

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Exhibition view of Light Theories,

Ithaque, Paris, France, 2026​

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Left to right: Ugo Casubolo Ferro, Untitled (2026); Sixtine de Thé, Pellicules aveugles (2021–2025); Sixtine de Thé, Pellicules aveugles (2021–2025); Sébastien Reuzé, Mascleta DSF2811 (2024); Ugo Casubolo Ferro, Untitled (2025).

DARKROOM

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Exhibition view of Light Theories,

Darkroom, Ithaque, Paris, France, 2026​

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At the centre, Irène Abello, Intacte (2023), photo-installation on fabric and metal structure.

Exhibition view of Light Theories,

Darkroom, Ithaque, Paris, France, 2026​

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Left to right: Sébastien Reuzé, Mascleta 03 (1997–2018); Ugo Casubolo Ferro, Untitled (2023).

Irene Abello, Ugo Casubolo Ferro, Martin Depalle, Ralf Marsault & Heino Muller

(25/34 Photograph), Sébastien Reuzé and Sixtine de Thé.

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Curated by Ugo Casubolo Ferro

The exhibition Light theories, curated by Ugo Casubolo Ferro, brings together works by Irene Abello, Ugo Casubolo Ferro, Martin Depalle, Ralf Marsault & Heino Muller (25/34 Photographes), Sébastien Reuzé and Sixtine de Thé.

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Seven artists from the French and international art scenes are brought together here around a plurality of photographic practices. Their works explore different ways of producing, transforming and thinking about the image, drawing on processes and techniques of contemporary photography — from chromogenic prints and toner transfers to printing on fabric and a sculptural approach to photosensitive materials.

"A feather appears in the photograph. And then, detached from it, a real feather emerges in volume.

The white paper ground, luminous in its emptiness and presence, is unmistakably photographic, although it has received no other rays of light than those it is receiving now. It is a blank sheet, an image integrated into a larger whole, an installation. There are unexposed surfaces, transfers of scraped photocopies, floating or suspended textiles, repeated explosions of light—organised, orchestrated like ambushes of light, acts of violence without impact. There is the silence and fragility of the moment, reconfigured in the studio or the darkroom; faces, expressions, animal and human presences that seem to look back at us, as though gazing through the image itself.

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The artists brought together in this exhibition share this sculptural, analogue, and experimental approach to photography. By testing and engaging with matter, their practices do justice to—or pay homage to—the powers of the photographic. Yet while these practices question the medium itself, they do not speak solely, or even primarily, about photography. Rather, they speak of the living world: of full and solitary lives, of drifting, of encounters with animals, of blindness and the reopening of the gaze, of a sensitive and singular experience that is nevertheless shared by us all. Of doubt, fear, desire, and sometimes indescribable joy… A world that is both common and singular, different for each of these artists, just as it is different for us, the viewers of these images.

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Here, there is no theory of photography—nor of a so-called “contemporary photographic”—and no theory of light either. Perhaps, instead, there is a simple idea: that ultimately, this is not so much about photography as it is about a thousand other things… theories, then, in their own way, multiple because singular, light, suspended and circulating, perhaps transitory and even relative; processions taking the form of images, in the light…"

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- Ugo Casubolo Ferro

Irene Abello

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Born in Bogotá in 1995, Irene Abello lives in Paris and works at the Ateliers Wonder in Bobigny. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she develops a practice that approaches natural elements as materials to be sculpted or activated through minimal gestures and processes of observation. At the intersection of installation, photography, and video, her work seeks to reveal invisible phenomena and transformations of matter, with particular attention to the subtle forms of living things and the variations of everyday life. Her work has been presented in France and internationally, notably at Paris Internationale (2024) with Galerie Cibrián; at Air de Paris; Galerie Michel Journiac; Espace Niemeyer; 6B; and Julio Artist Runspace. She has also taken part in several residencies in France and abroad.

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Ugo Casubolo Ferro

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Born in 1999, Ugo Casubolo Ferro is an artist and curator. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023, studios of Eric Poitevin and Guillaume Paris), he also studied at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, as well as philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. His work has been presented in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. His recent exhibitions include Jeans Generation, Abigail Ogilvy, Los Angeles (2026); Twenty-five angels, dust & bleach, Ithaque, Paris (2025); Ugo Ferro, Elsa Lee Bruno, Los Angeles (2025); and Situations de l’image, PhotoSaintGermain, Paris (France). He also produces silver gelatin prints, often in very large formats, for other artists, including Valérie Jouve, Patrick Faigenbaum, Ralf Marsault, and Gil Lesage. A finalist for the Camera Clara Prize in 2023, he was awarded the Nouveau Grand Tour by the Institut français in Italy in 2024.

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Martin Depalle

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Born in 1993, Martin Depalle lives and works between Paris and Montreuil. He studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris under Harald Thys, Michael Van Den Abeele, Hélène Delprat, and François Boisrond, who instilled in him a sense of freedom and a commitment to experimentation. His experiences as an assistant and photographer in the fashion industry have deeply influenced his work, leading him to question the fragility of images and the everyday representations that surround us, at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and photography. His recent exhibitions include Les Résidents, Promotion 2021–2025, Galerie Christophe Gaillard (2025); Château Sentimental, Galerie Javault Eva Pritsky (2024); as well as exhibitions at La Tour Orion, Villa Belleville, and La Volonté 93. He is the recipient of the Sciences Po Contemporary Art Prize (2024).

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Ralf Marsault

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Born in 1957, Ralf Marsault is an anthropologist and visual artist. His work explores both the perception of multiple and transitional selves and the unexamined aspects of the image. He is particularly known for the series Fin de siècle (a new edition of the book of the same title is due to be published in 2026 by Éditions des Beaux-Arts de Paris), which he created in the late 1980s with his partner Heino Muller (1948–1995) under the pseudonym 25/34 Photographes. His most significant recent exhibitions include Punk for ever!, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2025); Salut à toi, Transpalette Centre d’art, Bourges (2024); Soi, comme un autre, Musée Hèbre, Rochefort; Ralf Marsault: Berlin Years on the Wagenburg, European Month of Photography, FHXB Museum, Berlin (2020); as well as an invitation from Wolfgang Tillmans to present a work as part of the exhibition Rien ne nous y préparait – Tout nous y préparait, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2025).

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Sébastien Reuzé

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Born in 1970, Sébastien Reuzé lives and works between France and Belgium. Initially trained in drawing before studying photography at La Cambre in Brussels, he uses the medium as the starting point for a practice that extends into installation and video. His work is grounded in an experimental exploration of the medium, particularly through the analogue darkroom, where he develops the pictorial potential of the image. Often characterised by unreal tonalities, his works construct a contemplative and fictional universe informed by American photography, travel narratives, and literary references. His work has been presented in Belgium and internationally, notably at FOMU (Antwerp), the Centre de la Photographie de Genève, and FRAC Bretagne. He has received several distinctions, including the Young Belgian Art Prize. Alongside his artistic practice, he also develops an editorial practice.

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Sixtine de Thé

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Sixtine de Thé is a French artist whose photographic practice takes the form of installations. Born in France in 1991, she graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021, after studying art history at the École Normale Supérieure and the École du Louvre. Her work explores the thresholds of the visible through spatial dispositifs in which bodies, memory, and disappearance intersect. Her work has been presented notably at the PhotoSaintGermain festival and Private Choice in Paris, at the Fondation Luma in Arles, and internationally, including at the Centre Photographique de Genève, in Lebanon, and in the United States. A recipient of the European FUTURES programme in 2025, she has also been a resident at the Cité internationale des Arts, the Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, and Villa Al Qamar (Institut français du Liban). Her project Pellicules aveugles received a Jury Mention for the Dior Photography Award for Young Talents.

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