As part of the Saint Barth Photo Festival, the Wall House territorial museum is pleased to welcome and present to the island public the works of Jean-Luc de Laguarigue.   Exhibited in Nantes in 1998, in 2005 and 2006 at the Salon d'Automne in Paris as well as at the 6th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako, or even in Oxford in 2008 and in Martinique in 2017 and 2020, the photographs of Jean-Luc de Laguarigue develop a varied and original work which both revisits the art of portraiture (Gens de pays) and reinvents the beauty of film in the digital age (The Rest). His books also reveal a little-known face of the Caribbean (Tracées de mélancolie, Cases en pays mêlé). In 2025, he will publish “Les Fantômes d’argent” which explores the porosity between film and digital, where each image becomes a palimpsest of time and memory. This work questions the materiality of photography, while capturing the ephemeral and magic of childhood, between reality and dream. A poetic work where technique serves as a mirror for emotion, and where the image is both archive and fiction.

The Wall House Museum along with Art Saint Barth in collaboration with Perrotin Gallery, invite the artist Daniel Arsham to present Moonstone – a special site specific exhibition. Featuring installations, artwork and for the first time, a selection of photography by the artist, all of which work in tandem with and in contrast to the architecture of the historic 18TH Century cultural center.   The artist will display a series of photographs taken during a recent trip to the island. “I spent time in St. Barth last year and I went out a lot at night and took photographs of the island and the stars and the moon. I’m bringing some work that incorporates this notion of the moon, this notion of placing colour onto the moon.” Sculptural works in the show include a sculpture of the very first instrument Pharrell Williams ever made music on which Arsham modeled the forms out of geological materials, and Moon flag, created especially for the Moonstone exhibition. The film Future Relic will also be screened throughout the show.   In his work Daniel Arsham experiments with a variety of materials: crystal, volcanic ash and sand. His characteristic monochromatic palette and focus on the formal quality of objects is in part due to his partial colour blindness. However, now, with special glasses that partially correct his colour blindness, Arsham has begun to explore new artistic horizons. “I like to use materials in the way that they are not meant to be used,” he has said. “Whether it is a wall melting, or a boom- box decaying.”   About Daniel Arsham — Born in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Miami, Florida, Daniel Arsham attended the Cooper Union in New York City where he received the Gelman Trust Fellowship Award in 2003. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at the VDNH Museum, Moscow, Russia (2017); the High Art Museum, Atlanta, GA (2017); the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2016); the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (2015); the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (2012); and Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (2011). Select group exhibitions and biennials include the Yinchuan Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ningxia, China (2016); the OCA Museum, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2015); Musee d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France (2014); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2013); the New Museum, New York (2011); the Athens Biennial in Greece (2009); and MoMA P.S.1, New York (2005); amongst others. Arsham’s work is featured in numerous international public and private collections, including the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; DIOR Collection, Paris; the Four Seasons, Miami; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM); and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.