Exhibition Catalogue Roselyne Titaud, inszenieren

Catalogue de l'exposition Roselyne Titaud, inszenieren, présentée au Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne (3 juin - 6 septembre 2015).

This exhibition presents photographs from various series realised between 2010 and 2015.

The German title of the exhibition expresses the idea of ‘staging’, or ‘stage-managing’ something. And indeed, Roselyne Titaud’s work reveals a fascination for domestic interiors. The objects from people’s private spaces which she photographs become as it were ‘hollow portraits’1 (of absent individuals. The qualities of these objects and the particular way they are arranged are representative of a social milieu. They express the personality and interests of the inhabitants.

Titaud is also interested in other kinds of mise-enscène: the exhibition of the displays with their glass jars in the Stuttgart Museum of Natural History; the water-weed ballet in a lake in Weinberg Park, Berlin; the imposing, classical melody of the thick velvet carpet in the entrance to the Grand Hotel, Berlin; and in the Hufeisensiedlung2, a banister rail that looks like a harp. With the astute orchestration of her points of view and the framing of her shots, Roselyne Titaud is like an orchestra conductor.