Photographer François-Xavier Gbré explores how traces of history remain in the present. From the ruins of an abandoned building or one altered by the effects of war to quiet interiors imprinted upon by the people once there, his photography reflects society and considers how we make and remake the places we live. Gbré uses architecture and the surrounding environment to make pictures about time, landscape, memory, and social change.
Gbré is interested in innovative modes of display and ways viewers can interact with his pictures in a physical space. He has been exhibited and collected at institutions around the world including the Denver Art Museum, where his work Mali Militari (an installation of 85 small scale individually framed photographs) was included in the 2018 exhibition, New Territory: Landscape Photography Today.
François-Xavier Gbré lives and works between La Rochelle, France, and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
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