Bruno Serralongue

Born in: 1968
From: Châtellerault, France
Lives and works: Paris, France
Represented by: Air de Paris
Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Serralongue

UN goals

Biography

Bruno Serralongue is an “artist-citizen” photographing historic events like the European migrant crisis–especially the Calais Jungle– the Dakota access pipeline protests, militant occupation in Notre-Dame-des-Landes and much more. However, unlike professional photojournalists, he’s not invited to cover these events. and by still assisting, his gaze is, to an extent, uncompromised. Serralongue affirms to be more interested in what happens offscreen than what the camera lets transpire, revealing to his audience another perspective of overly mediatized events. This is why his projects are long-lasting as he develops a true connexion with the people he photographs.

In this sense, Serralongue and Alfredo Jaar can be equated, both being artists concerned by sensational images and the numbness they produce. The two seek to offer to their viewership images far more sensitive than what we can find in newspapers or other media outlets.

Serralongue’s investigative approach bears some resemblance with Théodore Géricault’s thorough journalistic research on the wreckage of a naval ship. After gathering all the information Gericault painted The Raft of the Medusa.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2020, Galerie de Photographies, Centre Pompidou, Paris: Calais. Témoigner de la « jungle » Bruno Serralongue. Agence France-Presse. Les habitants
2015, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland: La Terre est un crocodile
2012, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA: Oceans and Campfires: Allan Sekula and Bruno Serralongue
2011, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey: Time-Capsule
2010, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France: Feux de Camp

Group shows

2024, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France: Arpenter, photographier la Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2018, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea: Divided We Stand
2014, Smack Mellon, New York, USA: In Plain Sight
2014, MAXXI, Rome, Italy: Open Museum Open City
2013, Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand: If you were to live here