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Ann Mandelbaum and Arièle Bonzon Explore Desire and Disgust in Photography

exhibition · 2026-04-23

Ann Mandelbaum's photographs capture the slow gestation of vegetal or organic forms, their becoming and decay. At Espace photographique Contretype in Brussels, her early works featured a fantastic bestiary or soft, liquid, placental, and fetal forms, while more recent images focus on the face. At Galerie le Réverbère in Lyon, Arièle Bonzon shares a similar taste for the materiality of the photographic image and an inquiry into the possible metamorphosis of the body.

Key facts

  • Ann Mandelbaum's photographs depict the slow gestation of vegetal or organic forms, their becoming and rotting.
  • Early works at Espace photographique Contretype in Brussels featured a fantastic bestiary or soft, liquid, placental, and fetal forms.
  • Mandelbaum's more recent photographs focus on the face.
  • Arièle Bonzon exhibits at Galerie le Réverbère in Lyon.
  • Bonzon shares a taste for the materiality of the photographic image and an interrogation of the possible metamorphosis of the body.

Entities

Artists

  • Ann Mandelbaum
  • Arièle Bonzon

Institutions

  • Espace photographique Contretype
  • Galerie le Réverbère

Locations

  • Brussels
  • Belgium
  • Lyon
  • France

Sources