Ludovic Sauvage
11. MÖREL X MEP Studio
Late Show
Sun, waves, light, flowers.
Night falls over the city.
Late Show is a video featuring a succession of cutaways and ambient images with familiar connotations. Conceived in the form of a trailer, Ludovic Sauvage gives these images a strong fictional quality by placing them at the core of the narrative. Evoking the clichés of the natural world (sun, flowers, sea) and those of the urban environment (office buildings, traffic circulation), by combining these short videos Sauvage generates a narrative charged with tension. As the artist says of his images: ‘They travel between two worlds, for which they are the exits and entrances. They draw on fiction, entertainment, and advertising as extensions of reality, which in fact provides a completely different anchor: a situation in which we all already agree. They are not the narrative. They are its introduction.’
Edited by Mörel, MEP and Ludovic Sauvage, the zine captures stills and elements from the video, mirroring the timeline within the film.
About the Artist
Ludovic Sauvage was born in 1985 in Aix-en-Provence. He lives and works in Paris and is a graduate of the Villa Arson, Nice, and the Beaux-Arts de Valence. In addition to numerous exhibitions in France and abroad, in 2012 he was selected for the Salon de Montrouge and invited to take up a residency at the HEC contemporary art space in 2014. In 2015, he presented his first solo exhibitions Terrasse at Glassbox, Paris, and Le soleil se meut toujours at the Parc Floral de Paris. In 2017, Ludovic Sauvage was selected to take part in the 67th Jeune Création programme. In 2021, he took part in the Photo Festival Incadaqués, invited by the MEP. In 2023, he took part in several group exhibitions: Plein Feux at the Centre d’art La Chapelle de Clairefontaine, Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, Slackers at the Tonus in Paris, and Paroi at Doc in Paris. He also presented his solo exhibition Boxes at the Mármol project, Porto. Ludovic Sauvage is represented by Galerie Valeria Cetraro.
Edition of 250
17cmx24cm
44 pages
Published in conjunction with the exhibition:
“Late Show”
Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris 16.10.2024 - 01.12.2024