Jérémy LEMPLIN (1983) - Lot 216

Jérémy LEMPLIN (1983) Place d'Arbois, women's Tour de France, 2022 Digital print mounted on colored paper On back, signed, titled, dated, located Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm Note: Jérémy Lemplin's documentary photography focuses on territories and their uses, capturing ordinary moments that reveal social dynamics. Here, he captures a moment of gathering around the passage of the women's Tour de France, a popular event that transforms everyday space into a showplace. The composition is structured by suspended garlands that radiate out from the center of the square, creating an effect of depth and a visual focal point. This device guides the eye towards the fountain and the central group, around which the spectators are distributed. The image thus plays on an almost theatrical organization of space. The figures, seated on the barriers or grouped in small clusters, reflect a collective expectation. Almost nothing happens, but everything is in tension towards the event to come. Lemplin focuses on this suspended moment, revealing a simple, shared sociability. The warm, luminous color reinforces the scene's summery, convivial character. Through this image, the artist documents a living territory, where sporting events become a pretext for encounters and the construction of a collective memory.