Jean-Marie Reynier / POLAROIDS

This exhibition brings together a selection of Polaroids taken between 2022 and 2024 as part of a long-term body of work exploring fear not as a dramatic emotion but as a diffuse atmosphere both intimate and collective.

Made through simple gestures in ordinary settings these images aim less to represent than to evoke Some reconstruct an interior studio a memory space inspired by the atmospheres found in the work of Luigi Ghirri and Giorgio Morandi Others depart from that visual reference yet follow the same search for balance light and silence.

Fear here is never explicit It settles into objects reflections shadows Memory acts as a possible response a form of quiet resistance to loss and vertigo a gentle path toward consolation It opens a space for melancholic contemplation where traces and absences form a silent language.

These images are also a form of release a way to dwell with unease without succumbing to it It is an intimate practice guided by the desire to turn anxiety into attention.

OPEN 12:00 - 20:00 / CLOSED: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
OPENING RECEPTION: 08 November 6PM - 8PM

Jean-Marie Reynier (1983, CH – FR) lives and works in Perroy, Switzerland.
An artist, publisher, and exhibition curator, he explores memory, nostalgia, emergence, appearance, and disappearance through photography and publishing.
Trained at CSIA in Lugano and at HEAD in Geneva (CCC), he began exhibiting in 1997 in Ticino and has since developed a rich artistic career, with exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Italy, Colombia, Germany... His exhibition at LOWW Gallery marks his first solo show in Japan.
His work has been presented in independent spaces, galleries, museums, and institutions, and is held in numerous private and public collections.
Initially focused on painting and drawing, he gradually turned to analog photography (135, 120, Polaroid, Instax), a medium through which he questions places, human figures, and the skull—thus composing his own memory palace.
He is the director of Fondation Bugnon and also works as an art critic, regularly collaborating with various media. A pirate, he claims to lead an exemplary life.