STORIES OF GHOSTS, SPIRITS & SOULS, Shin Gallery

June 2019

In collaboration with Christele Guerard and Fumio Kadoya

During a performance, Armelle reads a passage from François-René de Chateaubriand's novel "Atala", Haruka Imako calligraphies on Armelle’ self-portrait the text read translated into Japanese.

KG+ SELECT 2019 / Anatomy of a French family/ Investigation in progress, Kyoto

April-May 2019

PUBLIC KG+AWARD GRAND-PRIX

In 2005, she started the photographic project “Anatomie d’une famille française” (“Anatomy of a French family”), a series that captures the daily life of her family members and questions the invisible bonds of a bloodline. The series received the “Bourse du Talent Portrait Grand Prize” in 2013.

While photographing her relatives, Kergall discovered troubling elements that deeply resonated in her. She started investigating her family tree and the photographic archives of her grandfather, leading her to develop several art projects such as “Ghosts”, “Genogram”, and “Chateaubriand, Ingres & I”. These projects were part of the exhibition she presented at KG+SELECT in 2019 – “Anatomy of a French Family/ Investigation in progress” – and which won her the “KG+SELECT Public Grand Prize”.