Coastal Bodies: Camille Guichard's exhibition at the Rachel Hardouin Gallery

And what if the body becomes a territory to explore? With Corps littoral, Camille Guichard presents a contemporary photography exhibition and poetic texts at the Galerie Rachel Hardouin in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, running from Thursday, May 21 to Sunday, June 21, 2026. A filmmaker, screenwriter, writer and photographer, Camille Guichard unfolds a body of work in which the body, nature, time and the intimate dialogue with one another. This first solo exhibition in Paris invites viewers to discover a practice built between self-portrait, performance, writing and a perspective on the living. The opening reception is on Thursday, May 21 at 6 p.m.

Camille Guichard's career spans several disciplines. After studying mathematics in Nantes, he pivots toward cinema and the visual arts. He has directed documentaries focused on Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, François Morellet or Duane Michals, before continuing his work as a writer for film, television and literature. In Corps littoral, the relationship between image and words takes on a more intimate form. The artist engages his own body in his photographs, often nude, against landscapes, against the cold, against the textures and constraints of the shoot. "Here I feel intensely alive; like an element of the grand nature, a particle, a part of a whole that is both mysterious and deeply captivating," he explains in a press release.

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The exhibition also surveys how landscapes are transformed. In the series Ces rivages perdus, Camille Guichard trains the lens on the Aquitaine coast, shaped by the ebb and flow of the Atlantic. The photographs, paired with haikus, speak of erosion, disappearance, and memory. "Watching the ocean’s power remake the coastline throws me into a state of numbness, as if I were losing a friend," the press release notes. Elsewhere, with Pulsions, corps et figures, the artist captures the skin, folds, hair, and fragments of the body as a living material. The focus then broadens to a larger question: how can the male body be represented outside the conventional codes of strength and virility?

Through Corps littoral, Camille Guichard offers a parcours where the body is at once subject, landscape, and a touchpoint with the world. The images and texts open a dialogue about vulnerability, matter, time, and the way we inhabit the living. Without aiming for a heavy-handed effect, the exhibition reveals a personal inquiry where every fragment, every gesture, and every landscape invite us to see differently what binds us to the forms of the world.

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