Opening by Alice Murillo and Guillaume Auray

Born in 1988, Alice Murillo lives and works in Paris. She began her career in the audiovisual industry, working as a video editor and assistant director on fiction shoots. In 2019, she chose to return to photography, which she had practiced as a teenager.

Her work is immediately imbued with the struggles that drive her, starting with women's rights. She then produced her first series, "Les femmes réinvestissent la rue", about women's relationship with urban places. In 2022, this series was selected for the Festival des Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert and published in Réponses Photo magazine.

In 2021, she joined the Gobelins school for a short course, where she met the four photographers with whom she co-founded the L'inconnu[e] collective. She developed a taste for visual experimentation, notably with the use of long exposure, as well as for aquatic photography. Constantly in search of a colorful, moving aesthetic, the photographer creates dreamlike, surreal worlds where intimacy and politics intermingle. She tackles subjects such as women's place in public space, their relationship with their bodies, and the relationships that unite them. Her work also explores the passage of time, whether through the age of her models, or the narration of past histories and relationships.

Her series have been the subject of several solo exhibitions in Paris: in 2022 at the Récolte Citadine; in 2023 at the Look; in 2024 at the Centre Paris Anim' Marc Sangnier, at the MVAC in the Quartier Latin during an event organized by the Sorbonne association.event organized by the Sorbonne ONU association, or at the UPP with its latest project entitled "L'amitié, c'est sacré! ". She will also be presenting a series of aquatic photos at L'inconnu[e]'s first group show in September 2023 at the Floréal Belleville gallery.

Guillaume Auray was born in Paris on October 28, 1988.

He currently divides his time between Caen and Trouville-sur-mer in the Calvados department.

Guillaume Auray began drawing at the age of 20. At that time, he discovered the work of the great names in photography and drew inspiration from them to create. Equipped with black Rotring pens, he reinterprets famous black-and-white shots. His childlike style expresses amusement, but the execution is clean and precise. The line is calligraphic, both curved and geometric.

At the Beaux Arts in Montpellier, Guillaume Auray discovered the use of oil paint. To use color, he turned again to photography, this time using it as a support. He finds old black-and-white photos in newspapers, cuts them out and paints them in small, overlapping strokes. Later, he perfected a technique combining patina wax, gold leaf and oxidized copper to transform black-and-white photos into mysterious monotypes. These various productions will give rise to a first exhibition in Beaumont en Auge (Calvados) in spring 2012.

Wishing to deepen her relationship with the image, the real encounter with the photographic medium came after the acquisition of her first Fujifilm camera. Apprehending this new instrument with an instinctive methodology, Guillaume Auray perceives antagonistic universes, such as the unknown and the familiar, the beautiful and the ugly subjective. He offers us a pictorial approach to photography, a pensive and poetic testimony.