a ppr oc he: Art Fair

We are thrilled to announce that we will be participating for the third consecutive year at a ppr oc he, the Parisian salon dedicated to artists who experiment with the image and push the boundaries of the photographic medium. Founded by Emilia Genuardi, the salon presents during Paris's photography season fifteen solo exhibitions by artists represented by their French and international galleries, confirming how experimentation with the image is a fertile and essential field of contemporary creation.

This year, alongside Juan Couder, we will be taking part in a significant edition: the 10th anniversary of a ppr oc he, coinciding with the national celebration of the bicentennial of photography. 

Born in Madrid in 1998, Juan Couder lives and works in Paris, after graduating from the Master of Arts in Photography at Aalto University in 2023. His work has been exhibited internationally and this year he will be joining the range of artists represented by the gallery as the protagonist of the next edition of the Lab 1930 YOUNG project: born in 2025, it is an annual opportunity given to promising young artists to engage with the art market. 

His experimental practice moves around notions of authorship, temporality and materiality in the field of expanded photography: in 2020, an encounter with a waterfall initiated "Clepsydra", an ongoing research into photography as an ephemeral time-measuring device. Named after the ancient Egyptian water clock, Clepsydra employs dripping, sedimentation, and crystallization processes with cyanotype emulsion. In the series "Uadi (#3-5)" (2026), visible for the first time at a ppr oc he, he extends this research, exploring water as both maker and eraser of landscape – and images. The series develops a process of cyclic chemigrams on a single glass plate, in which water is periodically poured over, documenting its erosion for several weeks.

Going back to the early efforts of the 19th Century on fixing images and testing their resistance, "Uadi"'s erosive methodology engages with photography through a compromise meant to be extended in time. It emphasises the very latency and fragility of the medium – which in spite of its hastening technical development, seems to be as deciduous as ever.