Umcebo, l’instantanée Galerie is pleased to invite you on Tuesday May 20, 2025 to the opening of the exhibition Hors-Lieu, presenting a series of photographs and several publications by photographers Lucia Guanaes and Marc Dumas, as well as to the afternoon meeting with the artists on Saturday May 24, 2025.

  • Launch of the “HORS-LIEU” collection (fanzine)

    Hors-lieu means “Behind the walls”…
    Outside systems, institutions, commercial constraints, fashions, rules and established artistic values). 

The two artists imagined an original format, that of a 16-page fanzine, each issue presenting 16 images taken from one of their photographic series produced between 1985 and the present day.
A series of 12 issues has been published and will be previewed on the evening of the opening.

HORS-LIEU – Format 19 x 27 cm, 16 pages 
Offset printing, 300 copies.

  • EXILE CITY” artist’s book – LUCIA GUANAES

    Exile City is a generic city, the result of a juxtaposition of images taken in the three cities that form part of Lucia Guanaes’ personal history: São Paulo, Paris and Salvador de Bahia. São Paulo is her birthplace, where she lived until the age of 22; Paris is the city she chose when she decided to leave Brazil; and finally, Salvador de Bahia is where most of her projects as a photographer have taken place.
    In this book, places on both sides of the Atlantic come together to form a single urban space: Exile city. Times merge, spaces merge. Memory fills the inevitable erasure of places. 
    Everything becomes ONE.
EXILE CITY – format 20 x 28 cm, 136 pages
Print rue : 300 copies.
  • PARIS CUT-UP” artist’s book – MARC DUMAS

    Walking through the city with no preconceptions, Marc Dumas collected ordinary urban fragments along the way. By some inexplicable magic, once fixed in his images, these pieces of the city appear transfigured.
    Freed from their original function, they become something ELSE, revealing their secret, previously hidden, invisible nature. 
    They are sometimes totems, sometimes altars, participating in “a cosmogony of the city in agony”: anti-homeless installations, fragments of shop windows, rubbish bags, public works tarpaulins, asphalt, barriers, planters, pigeon guards, trees, statues…
    In short, the whole panoply of banal, commonplace, functional, “qualityless” and “graceless” objects with which we city-dwellers are confronted every day. The city, a hostile territory to be tamed in an attempt to escape urban programming, the air-conditioned nightmare described by Henry Miller in the 50s.
PARIS CUT-UP
Format 16,5 x 23 cm, 112 pages
Offset printing, 300 copies