the collection
Perusal of the collection reveals not only the full diversity and richness of the artistic medium that is photography, but also the photographic concerns of young artists over the past three decades. In particular, it bears witness to the variety of artistic approaches explored during these residencies, all carried out under almost identical conditions of experimentation and spontaneity. Of course, technical developments in photography over this period are also inevitably reflected.
The collection has been enriched by the donation of 126 works by 86 photographers from the gellery L’Œil Écoute in Limoges when it ceased its activity, as well as various purchases and other donations from artists.
Exhibition Les interstices. by Frédéric Stucin. A Villa Pérochon production - © Didier Goudal.
photographers participating in the residency of the Encounters
2024 Sumi Anjuman (Bangladesh), Cristóbal Ascencio (Mexico), Violaine Carrère, Marine Combes, Tao Douay, Alisa Martynova (Russia-Italy), Alice Pallot, Thomas Pendeliau, Adrien Pontet.
2023 Romy Alizée, Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq (Bangladesh), Victor Gamarra (Peru), France-Lan Lê Vu, Chloé Milos Azzopardi, Valia Russo, Yehor Simakov (Ukraine).
2022 Lucie Belarbi, Lisa de Boeck (Belgium), Clémence Elman, Julia Genet, Erdiola Mustafaj (Italy), Joséphine Vallé Franceschi, Ali Zanjani (Iran).
2021 Lucile Boiron, Martina Cirese (Italy), Frederik Danielsen (Denmark), Jeanne Dubois-Pacquet, Leif Houllevigue, Emma Riviera, Neus Solà (Spain), Yorgos Yatromanolakis (Greece), Manon Thomas.
2018 Laura Bonnefous, Nía Diedla (France-Chile), Lisa Gervassi, Isabelle Ha Eav, Manon Lanjouère, Dina Oganova (Georgia), Dorian Teti, Negar Yaghmaian (Iran).
2017 Tjorven Bruyneel (Belgium), Tao Douai, Delphine Gatinois, Marie Mons, Marie Moroni, Ziad Naitaddi (Morocco), Lynn SK, Mimi Youn (South Korea).
2016 Jeannie Abert, Heriman Avy, Antoigrandene Bruy, Rebekka Deubner, Patricia Escriche (Spain), Enrico Floriddia, Soham Gupta (India), Mana Kikuta (Japan).
2015 Min Chen (China), David Fathi, Joseph Gallix, Ida Jakobs, Truth Leem (South Korea), Juliette McCawley (Trinidad), Emanuela Meloni (Italy), Bostjan Pucelj (Slovenia)
2014 Clara Chichin, Cédric Friggeri, Cyril Galmiche, Pauline Hisbacq, Gontung George Mandagie (Indonesia), Mafalda Rakos (Austria), Dana Stölzgen (Germany), Raul Valero Lopez (Spain)
2013 Nadège Abadie, Aï Estelle Barreyre, Gaël Bonnefon, Rasel Chowdhury (Bengladesh), Mireia Ferron Esquena (Spain), Mickaël Soyez, Ayaka Yamamoto (Japan), Vasantha Yogananthan.
2011 Estèla Alliaud, Françoise Beauguion, Anaïs Boudot, Paul Chapellier, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira (Ecuador-USA), Marta Pareja Cobos (Spain), Patrick Wong.
2010 Mariam Amurvelashvili (Georgia), Rachel Louise Brown (Great-Britain), Faustine Ferhmin, Sohrab Hura (India), Nicolas Raufaste, Gauthier Sibillat, SerkanTaycan, Leah Tepper Byrne (Great-Britain).
2009 Grégor Beltzig (Germany), Violaine Chaussonnet, Stephane Fugier, Shira Igell (Israel), Quentin Pradalier, Lionel Pralus, Coralie Salaün, Lisa Wiltse (USA).
2008 Melania Avanzato, Sandrine Binoux, Clément Briend, Florence Brochoire, Laurent Chardon, Laetitia Gessler (Switzerland), Andrei Liankevich (Belarus), Graham Miller (Australia), Laurie Polson (Belgium), Filip Przewozny (Poland), Selvaprakash (India), Eduardo Serafim (Brazil).
2007 Claire Béguier, Laure Bertin, Vanessa Chambard, Clémence De Limburg (Belgium), Jukka Onnela (Finland), Tuomo Rainio (Finland), Julie Victoria Tengesdal (Norway).
2006 Anita Andrzejewska (Poland), Anne-Laure Boyer, Jean-Luc Fouet, Yohan Gozard, Minori Matsuoka (Japan), Paloma Montes López, Juliana Musitelli.
2005 France Dubois, Sandrine Marc, Guillermo Mora, Lucile Nabonnand, Liza Nguyen, Karine Portal, Marie Snauwaert (Belgium), Grégory Valton.
2004 Christelle Chabrier, Samuel Choisy, Vincent Debanne, Diane Ducruet, Noemi Elias Bascuñana (Spain), April Gertler (USA-Germany), Marie Maurel de Maillé, Sébastien Normand.
2003 Émilie Delugeau, Maïtextu Etcheveria, Sylvie Fraissard, Ivars Gravlejs (Latvia), Nadia Kever (Belgium), Svetlana Khatchatourova (Russia), David Petitjean (Belgium), Valerie Sarrouy.
2002 Eric Baudelaire, Marie-Anne Chambonnier, Laurent Chardon, Agnieszka Czajkowska (Poland), Charlie Jouvet, Charles Klein, Karen Linke (Germany), Stéphanie Michaela Sabatier (Germany).
2001 Luc Arasse, Israel Ariño (Spain), Luc Demerjean, Olivia Froudkine, Laura Henno, Anne-Sophie Maignant, Aline Paley (Switzerland), Miriam Ruisseau.
2000 Alexa Brunet, Chimène Denneulin, Laetitia Fourgeaud, Brigitte Grignet (Belgium), Isabelle Le Minh, Bénédicte Reverchon, Pauline Turmel, Isabelle Vaillant.
1999 Sébastien Camboulive, Sara Carrapato, Arno Favre, Erick Flogny, Yolanda Pelaez (Spain), Gilles Raynaldy, Manuella Tetrel, Rafaël Trapet.
1998 Paula Bonneaud, Olivia Maria Da Silva (Portugal), Sabine Delcour, Sylvie Fontayne, Pascal Mirande, Paul Muse, Dominique Piccinato (Belgium), Vincent Rosenblatt.
1997 Patrizia Di Fiore, Jean-Claude Laffitte, Martine Molès, Francesco Morandin (Italy), Catarina Sebrea Leal, Jérome Sother, Tzu-Chen Chen (Taiwan), Ian Wiblin (Great-Britain).
1996 Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Rita Castro Neves (Portugal), Sandrine Expilly, Gwenola Furic, Andrej Glusgold (Germany), Philippe Herbet (Belgiqum), Anne Montaut, Arnaud Stinès.
1995 Abel Carrit d’Avoine (Switzerland), Xavier Bénony, Mercedes Blanco (Spain), Jean-Louis Burc, Bénédicte Delamain, Francine Dunkley, Sylvain Holterman, Claire Philippin.
1994 Jeroen Albert (Danemark), Nelly Blaya, Jesus Lesdesma Carbayo (Spain), Ramon Perez Chomon (Spain), Patrick Kühn, Marco Lambertini (Italy), José Esteban Naves(Spain), Alberto Tapia Isusi(Spain).
purchases for the collection
2013 – Denis Dailleux, Homme regardant la Mer Rouge, and Un vendeur de limonade dans le souk.
2006 – Laurent Millet, from the series Petites machines du littoral.
1996 – François Méchain, Hupisaaret.
donations to the collection
2020 – François Méchain, La sphère and …Durban…
2020 – Laurent Millet, Nuées and Déconstruction
2018 – Corinne Mercadier, Le temps
2009 – Arno Rafaël Minkkinen, Three works produced in Niort.
2007 – Philip Blenkinsop, Four photographs.
2004 – Joan Fontcuberta, work produced in Niort Pirahnas
2000 – Tom Drahos, co-production of Albertine off line
1999 – Georges Fèvre.
1999 – Françoise Huguier, Two images created during filming of Trouble every day by Claire Denis.
1998 – Hugues de Wurstemberger
1997 – Cristina Garcia Rodero, Georgia and Kosovan refugees at the border of Macedonia
1995 – Guillaume Geneste
1994 – Luc Choquer, Three photographs from the series Portraits de français
1994 – Didier Hubert
1993 – Bernard Plossu, le voyage mexicain
1993 – Hergo, portrait of Bernard Plossu and three photographs from the série Les Mythos
donation by the association of the gallery l'Œil écoute
“For nearly thirty years, the association L’Œil Écoute based in Limoges, worked for the dissemination of art photography through active programming within its eponymous gallery located in the town centre. Yves Lapeyre, director of the gallery and one of the four founding members of the association, continually invited great photographers as well as lesser known and promising artists and supported them by buying examples of their works, thus constituting a considerable collection, comprising more than 120 works by some 80 artists. At the same time, the association also set up and ran the Rencontres Photographiques de Solignac during three decades, a notable festival among the calendar of national photographic events. We had started to forge links between our two structures as it was common to see the same names of photographers featured in our respective programmes.
When last February Yves Couturier, President of L’Œil Écoute, contacted me to inform me of the dissolution of the association and its members’ decision to designate the association Pour l'Instant as recipient of its collection, I was dismayed to learn of the disappearance of an appreciated cultural actor and at the same time surprised and honoured by this devolution, announced as recognition of our place in the panorama of actors in the field of photography in the New Aquitaine region. There are nearly 120 photographs from the L’Œil Écoute collection that we are presenting here. You will find great names among them and discover great talents”.
Sylviane Van de Moortele, November 2017, President from 1994 to 2019 of the association Pour l’Instant, Villa Pérochon.
the artists
Jean-Pierre ARTIGES, Magalie BALLET, Max BARBONI, Bruno BARLIER, Jean-Baptiste BARRET, Anne-Catherine BECKER-ECHIVARD, Carole BELLAICHE, Xavier BENONY, Pierre BIDART, Carmelo BONGIORNO, Frédérique BRETIN, Claudine CAPDEVILLE, Bruno CHALIFOUR, Bernard CHEVALIER, Emmanuelle COQUERRAY, Thibault CUISSET, Martin D. SCOTT, Denis DAILLEUX, Frances DAL CHELE, Marko DAPIC, Gaëtan Viaris DE LESEGNO, Aurore DE SOUSA, Bruno DELAMAIN, Dominique DELPOUX, Murielle DESROCHES, Eric DESSERT, Alain DESVERGNES, Patrizia DI FIORE, Thierry DUBREUIL, François DUGUE, Jean-Michel FAUQUET, Maitextu ETCHEVERRIA, Sylvie FONTAYNE, Michel GADY, Gilbert GARCIN, Thierry GERAUD, Stéphan GIRARD, Toby GLANVILLE, Didier GOURBIN, HERGO, Sandrine JOUSSEAUME, Bogdan KONOPKA, Patrick LE BESCONT, Daniel LEBEE, Martine LOCATELLI, Vincent LOFREDA, Yveline LOISEUR, Christian LOUIS, Isabelle MAAREK, Dolorès MARAT, Hélène MARCOZ, MARIWAK, Martine MASSENAVETTE, Laurent MILLET, Pedro MONICA, Myr MURATET, Noël MYLES, Claude NORI, Tadeusz PACZULA, Caroline PANDELE, Emmanuel PINARD, Catherine PONCIN, Alexandra POUZET, François PUYPLAT, Christian RAMADE, (Omar Martinez) RAOM et LOBA, Jean-Phillippe REVERDOT, Damaris RISH, David ROSENFELD, François SAINT-PIERRE, Jacqueline SALMON, Marie- Pierre SAUNIER, Sebastien SECCHI, Ivan SEGURA, Christiane SINTES, Dagmar SIPPEL, Samira TAMJOUNTI, Stéphanie TETU, Jean-Loup TRASSARD, Sylvie TUBIANA, Guy VALENTE, Chantal VEY, Valérie VILLIEU et Laurence FAURE, Marie-Pierre VINCENT, Philippe VITALLER, Béatrix VON CONTA, Sabine WEISS, Susan WILKS.
exhibitions available for showing
Images négociées-Projet réseau
Michel Séméniako, 1996
Managed by Patrick Delat and Éric Parat.
A large-scale collaborative socio-artistic project. 61 inhabitants of Niort joined in this unique cultural experience to become, alongside Michel Séméniako, co-authors of a collective work bringing together 1,300 people.
Montre-moi
Villa Pérochon, Jean-Luc Fouet/Patrick Delat, 2007
Project carried out in collaboration with inhabitants of Niort..
70 diptychs of photos taken in apartments still inhabited before demolition in 2007 as part of an urban renewal operation in Niort.
Le tirailleur et les trois fleuves
Philippe Guionie, 2009
A version of this beautiful exhibition in 70cmx70cm format silver bromide prints was produced by Michel Paradinas in our darkroom. This was the first step in the 2010 creative residency of Philippe Guionie in Niort and La Rochelle: Le tirailleur, traces de mémoire.
Double-Je
Emmanuelle Brisson, 2013
We accompanied the first exhibition of an artist from Niort at the Villa Pérochon after seeing her emerging work. Double je was the fruit of this very rich collaborative project.
Le tirailleur, traces de mémoire
Philippe Guionie, 2010
A co-production with the Carré Amelot gallery in Rochelle.
Les villes invisibles
Maud Faivre, 2017
A co-production of Drac Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Inrap.
[On the site of Maud Faivre]
Sèvre/mer
Emanuela Meloni, 2021
A co-production with Carré Amelot, Centre Intermondes de La Rochelle and Communauté de communes Haut val de Sèvre.
[On the site of Emanuela Meloni]
Les interstices
Frédéric Stucin, 2022
A production of the Villa Pérochon.
