Ellen Cantor, Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie

Ellen Cantor

Annie Ernaux

Marc Marie

Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi is pleased to present Bedroom, Christmas Morning, an exhibition showing original hand-printed colour photographs by Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie, alongside If I Just Turn and Run (1998), a video by the late Ellen Cantor. The series of fourteen images taken by Ernaux & Marie formed the basis for their book The Use of Photography; this is the first time they have been exhibited.

Annie Ernaux (b. 1940, Normandy) grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Marc Marie was a French photographer and journalist.

Ellen Cantor (b. 1961, Detroit, Michigan) lived and worked in London and New York City until her death in 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with exhibitions and screenings at several venues including Cabinet, London; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Feigen Gallery, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; MoMA PS1, New York; Participant Inc, New York; Postmasters, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, and White Columns, New York.