{"id":8689,"date":"2026-10-02T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8689"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:31:03","slug":"les-incommodes","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/portfolio-item\/les-incommodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Incommodes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div  class='avia-slideshow av-muqpzwac-dccc0af9cea69691f4f5307222ca5b17 avia-slideshow-no scaling av_slideshow avia-slide-slider  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_codeblock  el_before_av_tab_container  av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-1' 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title='LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes-1030x654.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes-705x447.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div  class='tabcontainer av-muqq14ur-60ba843759c4fd5565072d17b796a6e0 top_tab  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_slideshow  avia-builder-el-last '>\n<section class='av_tab_section av_tab_section av-muqq0l20-ad483469528dbcc44fbd30eb843c1233'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div id='tab-id-1-tab' class='tab active_tab' role='tab' aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" data-fake-id='#tab-id-1' aria-controls='tab-id-1-content'  itemprop=\"headline\" >Script<\/div><div id='tab-id-1-content' class='tab_content active_tab_content' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='tab-id-1-tab' aria-hidden=\"false\"><div class='tab_inner_content invers-color'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">Les incommodes, 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">&#8220;In &#8216;Les incommodes&#8217;, Laurence A\u00ebgerter has selected from the Autochrome collection of the Archives de la plan\u00e8te a series of portraits that appear innocent at first glance but are particularly jarring when viewed through a contemporary lens: a naked Black woman from Djibouti, a naked albino in Vietnam, a refuse collector, a man from Benares (India) \u2013 perhaps an Untouchable \u2013 and children working together on a loom in Damascus.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">These portraits are anything but mundane; they exude the Western condescension of the early 20th century, which reproduces in images the archetypes it has itself forged and disseminates them through photography.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">This series is genuinely unsettling, yet the artist redeems the subjects just as much as she mitigates the violence of the gaze directed at them through the technical process employed.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">The softness of the lithophane serves to erase the \u2018documentary\u2019 brutality of the original photographs.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">Sylvain Besson, Directeur des collections, mus\u00e9e Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">Texte original<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">&#8220;Dans &#8216;Les incommodes&#8217;, Laurence A\u00ebgerter a choisi au sein des autochromes des Archives de la plan\u00e8te des portraits innocents en apparence mais particuli\u00e8rement violents \u00e0 l\u2019aune de nos regards contemporains : une femme noire, nue, de Djibouti, un albinos au Vietnam, nu \u00e9galement, un ramasseur d\u2019ordures, un homme de Benares (Inde), peut-\u00eatre un Intouchable, des enfants travaillant ensemble sur un m\u00e9tier \u00e0 tisser \u00e0 Damas.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">Ces portraits sont tout sauf banals, ils transpirent la condescendance occidentale du d\u00e9but du XX<sup>e <\/sup>si\u00e8cle qui reproduit en images les arch\u00e9types qu\u2019elle a elle-m\u00eame forg\u00e9s et les diffuse par la photographie.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">Cette s\u00e9rie est v\u00e9ritablement incommode mais l\u2019artiste r\u00e9pare les mod\u00e8les autant qu\u2019elle att\u00e9nue la violence du regard port\u00e9 sur eux par le proc\u00e9d\u00e9 technique employ\u00e9.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Avenir-Light;\">La douceur de la lithophanie s\u2019emploie \u00e0 faire disparaitre la brutalit\u00e9 \u00ab documentaire \u00bb des clich\u00e9s originaux.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laurence A\u00ebgerter<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile researching for &#8216;Poor Maria&#8217;, I discovered a series of portraits which stroke me their beauty at first glance but which, in the next seconds, made me feel unconfortable.<br \/>\nAll these images are containing elements that seem to correspond to situations of social exclusion, children labour, sexual oppression, precarity of income and health.<br \/>\nThe photographs have been taken all around the world, respectively in Asia, middle East, Africa, Europe and India.<br \/>\nThe portraits I selected are spanning almost a life time, from early youth to the older age.<br \/>\nThe combination of this different elements combined give an universality to this ensemble, which I called &#8216;Les Incommodes&#8217;.<br \/>\nIn a later stage I wish to realise a common frame for the five lithophanes, as a polyptic.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_tab_section av_tab_section av-muqq0tgs-bd9a0718557ee0996171b8b19e2bbbee'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div id='tab-id-2-tab' class='tab' role='tab' aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\" data-fake-id='#tab-id-2' aria-controls='tab-id-2-content'  itemprop=\"headline\" >Credits<\/div><div id='tab-id-2-content' class='tab_content' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='tab-id-2-tab' aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class='tab_inner_content invers-color'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em>Les Incommodes,<\/em> 2026<\/p>\n<p>A polyptych consisting of five Bone China porcelain lithophanes<\/p>\n<p>circa 48 x 35 x 0,6 cm (hxwxd)<\/p>\n<p>Source photographs : Les archives de la plan\u00e8te, Mus\u00e9e d\u00e9partemental Albert Kahn<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes-1030x654.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/laurenceaegerter.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LaurenceAegerter-LesIncommodes-768x487.jpg 768w, 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