Stéphanie Solinas Explores the Inexplicable at Clémentine de la Féronnière

Stéphanie Solinas presents 'L’Inexpliqué – Revenants' at Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière in Paris from February 4 to 20, 2021. The exhibition is the first chapter of a larger project begun during her residency at the Villa Medici in Rome (2017-18). Solinas, winner of the 2020 Camera Clara Prize for chamber photography, investigates the intersection of spirituality and materiality through the theme of miracles. She uses the actual camera of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of the most photographed saints, borrowed from the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, to photograph Vatican documents on sainthood and scientific evidence of the sacred. The series also references Galileo, who awaited his trial at the Villa Medici in 1633. The works combine details of sculptures, paintings, and astronomical landscapes, presented as diptychs that evoke miracles without definitive explanations. Solinas treats the body as a site of knowledge and contemplation, focusing on faces and stigmata as liminal surfaces. The exhibition remains open to interpretation, offering enigmatic images without keys.