“Ici et Ailleurs,” a tribute to the fragility of existence, to its strength, to its inexorable and ephemeral brilliance. An ode to slowness, to time passing without us having any control over it, other than stealing a few fleeting moments…
“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either,
and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”
Philip Roth
LiLiROZE, the photographer who writes with images…
LiLiROZE’s latest book was published eight years ago. With this new authorial work, LiLiROZE synthesizes her production and incorporates the latest series she has produced in recent years. Since her work is intimately linked to her personal life, “Ici et Ailleurs” is an invitation to share with her what makes the universality of an existence and allows us to be part of the same humanity.
Around the themes of desire, the body, mourning, and the fleetingness of life, she weaves connections between herself and us, between here (and now) and elsewhere (and eternally), in an atmosphere blending melancholy, softness, and romanticism.
Thus, echoing the words of the American philosopher George Steiner, it can be affirmed that LiLiROZE’s work is both a rupture and a encounter. The photographer steps out of herself and compels us to do the same. Together, we break with our certainties to approach what is other.
“At first, photography is something abstract, intangible, it’s a story of light, a gaze. But I feel like I photograph as one touches, as one sculpts. I believe the boundary is thin between painting and my way of photographing; it’s somewhat about touch.”
LiLiROZE
A book designed as an inner film
Nuances, Silences, Abysses, Lost Paradises, Secret Gardens—keywords that softly lead us into the depth of LiLiROZE’s universe. Punctuated with poetic texts, each sequence takes us from one emotion to another, from the joy of color to the melancholy of black & white. The photographer reveals her extreme sensitivity and her ability to create portrait-landscapes. Her staging is of immense subtlety; the complexity of their composition fades away in the contemplation of their beauty. Only the pure emotion created by these images remains, each one a painting in its own right.
While color (from reds to blues) enhances the bodies of the women she portrays in Nuances and Abysses, or envelops the childlike characters ready to take flight in her series Secret Gardens, she has chosen black & white to evoke absence and the passage from childhood to disappearance in her sequences Silences and Lost Paradises.
Nature is present everywhere. Generous and lush flowers, wooded groves, bare winter trees, the nadiral lights of the setting sun, the rounded hills, the rustling leaves of a forest reborn, the transparent waters of a sleeping lake, the magical shadows of an autumn night, blue shores, cottony clouds, and wild plants… Vegetation entwines, exalts, purifies, transcends.
Regarding the use of blur…
In photography, blur is most often the result of a basic error. With LiLiROZE, it is elevated to the ranks of a highly mastered artistic practice. Her perception of the world is one of suspended time, where forms subtly dissolve into space, leaving an impression of reality rather than certainty, placing more importance on sensation, mystery, than on the precision of lines and contours. Her blur creates a movement that moves, reminiscent of narrative blur in cinema, while her chromatic palette, dominated by reds, offers an ode to desire, sensuality, and femininity, all sublimated by the softness of natural light.
“Everything is a game. The motif? What am I searching for?
First and foremost, I am searching for freedom.”
Man Ray, 1945.
Who is LiLiROZE?
Born in 1972 in Geneva, LiLiROZE left her studies in econometrics to attend the École nationale supérieure Louis Lumière, from which she graduated in 1997. Since her first exhibition in 2001 in Paris during the Month of Photography, she has continuously deepened her practice, alternating between commissions for the fashion and beauty world, personal work, exhibitions worldwide (Arles, China, Brazil, France), and monographic books. Also a mother of four children, she has settled in a small village in the southeast of France for several years, with just over 500 inhabitants, a former medieval fortified town that perfectly suits her photography: out of time and therefore timeless.
It has been over 8 years since she last published her work. “Ici et Ailleurs” will be her fifth book, after publishing in 2011 and 2016 with Editions de La Martinière, and in 2012 and 2014 with HC Editions.
“I don’t photograph what I see, but what I feel. I love slowness and long exposures, which allow breathingand heartbeat. I photograph almost without light. And what comes out ofthe shadows is poetry, with the taste of dreams and the fragrance of secrets.”
LiLiROZE
The Book
Size 29 x 29 cm (square)
180 photographs
216 pages, case bound book, embossing of the front cover
Printed in 4cx4c on coated and bulky paper 150gsm with online silk varnish
Ends with color paper
Preface > Émilie Rodière
Texts > Cléo Collomb, Fabrice Gasser, Wilfrid Wilbert, LiLiROZE
Artistic Direction > LiLiROZE
The book will be bilingual French/English
If this crowdfunding campaign is successful, LiLiROZE will entrust the publishing of her book to the publishing house Hemeria. “Ici et Ailleurs” will benefit from the know-how and expertise of the production agency Printmodel, associated with Hemeria, which develops specific processes for image treatment and printing.
How can I support the project?
> You have the choice between several available offers, including purchasing a special edition of the book and art prints at preferential prices. Simply choose from the following different offers, and when making your payment, don’t forget to indicate the reference of the print you have chosen.
Below are the various choices of photographs available for art prints, according to the formats.
IMPORTANT: PLEASE REMEMBER TO INDICATE THE REFERENCE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH (FROM A TO V) THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN AT THE TIME OF PAYMENT IN THE “ORDER NOTES” SECTION.
All the art prints come with a certificate of authenticity.
- Artprints available for the 249 EUR offer (size 24×32 cm) >
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- A // From 3/20 to 20/20
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- B // From 4/20 to 20/20
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- C // From 1/20 to 20/20
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- D // From 1/20 to 20/20
- Artprints available for the 500 EUR offer (size 30×40 cm) >
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- E // From 1/20 to 20/20
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- F // From 1/20 to 20/20
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- G // From 3/20 to 20/20
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- H // From 1/20 to 20/20
- Artprints available for the 900 EUR offer (size 40×50 cm) >
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- I // From 2/20 to 20/20
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- J // From 6/20 to 20/20
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- K // From 2/20 to 20/20
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- L // From 3/20 to 20/20
- Artprints available for the 1,500 EUR offer (size 60×80 cm) >
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- M // From 1/10 to 10/10
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- N // From 2/10 to 10/10
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- O // From 3/10 to 10/10
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- P // From 1/10 to 10/10
- Artprints available for the 4,000 EUR offer (size 90×120 cm) – ICONIC PHOTOS >
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- Q // Le baiser – 7/8 or 8/8
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- R // Plume – From 2/9 to 9/9
- Artprints available for the 3,000 EUR offer (size 80×105 cm) – 3 artprints gilded with gold leaf >
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- S // 3/5
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- T // 3/5
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- U // 3/5
- Artprints available for the 1,500 EUR offer (size 3x 40×40 cm) >
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- V // From 1/20 to 20/20
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- W // From 1/20 to 20/20
- Postal Card offered with each book >
Postal card offered with each book
EXHIBITIONS IN MAY & JUNE 2024
€59
59€
The book at €59 instead of €69 (retail price upon publication)
+ 1 free 13x18 postcard
+ Your name in the book
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery
€99
40 Rewards left99€
Signed and numbered book
+ 1 postcard size 13x18 cm offered
+ Your name in the book
Limited to 50 copies
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery
€110
110€
2 books
+ 2 postcards format 13x18 cm
+ your name in the book.
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery
€249
249€
Art print 24x32 cm, signed and numbered (not framed)
+ The book offered
+ Your name in the book
Art print to choose from 4 photos A, B, C or D. Enter your choice in the order notes when paying.
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery. Certificate of authenticity.
€250
250€
Company Pack
5 books (50€ perbook instead of 69€)
€500
500€
Company Pack
10 books (50€ perbook instead of 69€)
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€500
500€
Art print 30x40 cm, signed and numbered
+ The book offered
+ Your name in the book
Art print to choose from 4 photos E, F, G or H. Enter your choice in the order notes when paying.
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery. Certificate of authenticity.
€900
900€
Art print 40x50 cm, signed and numbered
+ The book offered
+ Your name in the book
Art print to choose from 4 photos I, J, K or L. Enter your choice in the order notes when paying.
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery. Certificate of authenticity.
€1500
1500€
Triptych art print 3 x 40x40cm cm signed and numbered
(not framed). Certificate of authenticity.
Delivered with certificate of authenticity
+ 2 books offered
+ Your name in the book
Art print to choose from 2 triptychs: photo V or W
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery
€1500
1500€
Art print 60x80 cm, signed and numbered (not framed)
Certificate of authenticity
Delivered with certificate of authenticity
+ 2 books offered
+ Your name in the book
Art print to choose from 4 photos M, N, O or P. Enter your choice in the order notes when paying.
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery
€2000
2000€
A photo session to take your portrait with a print signed by the artist in 40x50 cm format (travel included if France or Switzerland -- additional for other countries)
+ 1 book
+ Your name in the book
€3000
2 Rewards left3000€
80x105 cm Fine Art prints enhanced with gold leaf - (not framed)
3 Fine Art prints available S, T and U photos - Unique Fine Art prints + 2 books offered + Your name in the book
Certificate of authenticity.
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery
€4000
4000€
Signed and numbered 90x120 cm art print of an iconic photo (Photo Q or R) (not framed). Certificate of authenticity.
+ 2 books offered + Your name in the book
Delivery in mainland France included, additional charge for international delivery
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