Isabelle Giovacchini's Alchemical Photography Explores Time and Invisibility

Key facts

• Isabelle Giovacchini was born in 1982 in Nice.
• She lives and works in Nice and Paris.
• She participates in group shows at CCC de Tours, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, and Mamac de Nice in summer 2013.
• Her early video 'Cri' features Augustine, a patient of Charcot at Pitié-Salpêtrière.
• She photocopied an image until it blackened completely.
• Her masters include Timothy O'Sullivan, Gustave Le Gray, Karl Blossfeldt, Jules-Etienne Marey, and Eadweard Muybridge.
• She associates photography pioneers with aviation pioneers like Louis-Ferdinand Ferber in 'Fendre l'air'.
• Her installation 'Ambre' uses a stone in a slide to create a pulsing projection.
• 'About: blank' is a canvas pierced with pins every half millimeter.
• The series 'Vanishing Points' shows clouds split in two, hiding a plane's sonic boom halo.
• 'Corps étrangers' transforms X-ray details into poetic landscapes.
• 'Sauter le pas' features Franz Reichelt about to jump from the Eiffel Tower.
• She 'healed' mistletoe-infested trees by pinning their photographs in an entomologist's box.
• In 'Mehr Licht', images on black-and-white paper take on rosy colors.
• Recent solo shows include Galerie Isabelle Gounod (2011), Frac Champagne-Ardenne (2011), Biennale de Bourges (2012), and Chez-robert.com (2012).
• Group shows include Nuit de l'instant (Marseille, 2012), Musique des images (Saint Dizier, 2012), À elle seule, la vie est une citation (Chaumont, 2012), Mais où est donc Ornicar? (Paris, 2013), Bonjour, monsieur Matisse (Nice, 2013), Five minutes after the show (Tours, 2013), and Filiations (Mouans-Sartoux, 2013).