Gabrielle Duplantier, In Limbo, 2025

Published by Unsocial Studio Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition in Modena

The images, as suggested by the title of the exhibition, reveal mysterious places suspended in a fantastic and surreal dimension where time seems to expand indefinitely. Gabrielle’s limbo is made of wood, intricate patterns of trees and vegetation, powerful portraits and animals; all elements belonging to an inaccessible nature that seems to hold its breath in our modern world.

An extract from a text by Claude Nori, from Canto Libero, 2022: «Gabrielle Duplantier is now recognized as one of the most powerful contemporary voices in photography, a voice that immediately carries like flamenco or fado, an outcry at once strong and melancholic but that wipes away everything along its path, like the wind that blows over the moors and hills of her native Basque Country, calling out to myths and legends. With a raw, high-contrast palette of black and white, she has created a novel visual alphabet, painstakingly constructed over time. The observer is drawn into her images by the sensuality of their shapes and materials, but also by the blurred faces and bodies engaged in rituals, often mysterious, that play with reality and fiction.»