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Gaelle Beri
The Foundry
86 Great Eastern Street
London EC2A 3JL
The Foundry is an ingenuous little space, which offers his humble but amicable walls to the creativity of new London artists free of charge. This surely is a quality that not many pubs boast, and it should be encouraged. In addition to that the prices of drinks are cheap and the staff are friendly.
From the 7th of October to the 19th of October The Foundry presents Gaelle Beri’s photography exhibition.
A series of black and white images are the exposé of the last decade most prominent figures in the British music scene.
A portraiture that is more than just iconography, because Beri’s camera captures the emotional moment of the live gig, the pathos of the singer or musician during the act of performance and it entraps the intensity of the sonic experience onto the prints.
The chiaroscuro caresses the silhouettes of the famous musicians, like Winehouse, Albarn and Cave.
Nick Cave is the muse in two portraits and, to put it in his own words, the man from The Murder Ballads indeed appears quite handsome, shot from Beri’s angle and underneath Beri’s light. He is the most dramatic of all subjects and the lens reveals a sort of poetic aura in his dark hair and dark moustache.
The light, in fact, works all figures with atmospheric suggestion and adds vivid energy to the visual pop biography signed by the 24 year old from Marseille. The vivacity in the prints renders more tangible the experience of the live act and evokes a certain sense of familiarity to be shared by all music lovers.
Gaelle Beri’s first exhibition deserves some attention; its artistic potential is remarkably strong. I personally enjoyed the exhibition very much and look forward to see more of Beri’s photographs.
By Liza Adebisi
