OPENING Thursday June 5, 6 pm
> VISIT the exhibition with the artist and curator Cristina Ferraiuolo: Saturday June 7, 2 pm
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Anaïs Tondeur, an artist committed to a new form of political art, combines analog processes from the early history of photography with ecological practices.
In this approach, she explores new ways of telling the world, transforming our relationship with others, with the living and with the great cycles of the earth.
Exhibition presented in collaboration with Spot home Gallery, Naples - Curated by Cristina Ferraiuolo
Through photographic and sensory protocols, Anaïs Tondeur works to reveal the intangible within ecosystems affected by human activity. She explores, through worlds on the brink of collapse, the deep interdependencies that bind human existence to the web of life. Always seeking new alliances, she develops a practice as a field artist, treating the image as a sensitive surface through which she invites us to encounter and reflect on beings and elements rendered invisible—granting them agency, even within the very materiality of the photographic print.
" In her practice, contact photography acquires a meaning that is at once material and ethical. Rather than represent atmospheric pollution, nuclear contamination, or toxicity-induced stress, she lets their material traces testify to the presence of lethal substances in the air or in plant bodies.
In the measure that the distance between the object of photography and its support diminishes, the artist’s commitment grows, the commitment to avoid idealization and to transform her works into channels for the self-expression of the world on the brink. Contact then comes into its own as both tactile and tactful.
And they also point a way toward modes of resistance to this disaster: first, by aesthetically registering the indigestible experience, or non-experience, of radioactivity, toxicity, and other kinds of pollution (hence, internally transforming, rendering it minimally digestible), and, second, by joining the plants in their own efforts to neutralize heavy metals and radionuclides, to cure the earth and to heal the world. Neither despairing nor hopeful, her works invite another approach to our inescapable planetary situation, an approach to be invented and reinvented by each viewer touched by the traces of devastation, to which they bear silent witness."
Michael Marder

BIOGRAPHY
Attending to invisible materialities of the air and the climate, plants and soils, Anaïs Tondeur develops image-based investigations as anthropological tools. She catches images at the interstices of bodies and environments, in sites of late industrialism where she breeds novel engagements, pointing to alternative forms of relationalities and photographic materialities.
Graduate from Central Saint Martin (2008) and Royal College of Arts (2010) in London, Anaïs Tondeur, nominated to Prix Pictet 2025, received the Mention of Honour of the Friends of the Jardin Albert Kahn (2024). She was awarded the Grand Prix RPBB (2024), the Prix Photographie et Sciences, Résidence 1+2 (2023), MIRA, Institut français support for artistic mobility (2023), the Prix Art of Change 21 and Mention of Honour Cyber Arts, Ars Electronica (2019).
She has exhibited her work in international institutions such as the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), FR, MAMAC (Nice), Centre Pompidou (France), Kröller-Müller Museum (Pays-Bas), Museum Ostwall, Dortmund U, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, (Allemagne), Kunst Haus Wien (Austria), Chicago Art Center, Spencer Art Museum (USA), Choi Center (Beijing), Nam June Paik Art Center, Sungkok Art Museum (Corée du Sud).