Thank you for coming to the opening of the exhibitions "Something Is Going On Here" by Alexander Gronsky and "Boundary Hunt" by Toshio Shibata ! 

The exhibition «Something Is Going On Here» opens with an image of a pro-Kremlin demonstration in the heart of the Russian capital. To these screams of support, Alexander Gronsky responds with silent, refined, subtle and sometimes ironic paintings, in which Muscovites appear like extras in a play. As the bombs fall on Ukraine, the «landscape photographer», as he defines himself, turns his lens towards the suburbs of the city where he has lived for more than fifteen years. His images, presented for the first time in the Polka gallery exhibition and published in a book under the title [02-24-2022], show that the conflict does not disturb the daily life of Muscovites. Everything seems normal. 

^{Between 2000 and 2004, Toshio Shibata began a period of experimentation during which he rediscovered the Type 55 film he had used as a student, and more than 400 shots were taken in Japan and the United States with this film. The chemical process of the film produced by Polaroid caused a break: during development, a border made up of raw, almost metallic lines and chemical traces appeared. Shibata decided to keep it. When I look at the resulting image,» he explains, «I find myself on the borderline between a photograph and a drawing.» This border will give its name to the series «Boundary Hunt» exhibited for the first time in France at the Polka gallery. A reference to the frame that is superimposed on the images, but also to the quest for new photographic frontiers.} 

The opening took place on Thursday 10 November 2022.

The exhibitions will be on display until 11 November 2023.