The exhibition Matière terrestre displays these interiors in which Françoise Huguier chose to linger in order to better evoke those who live, wash, cook and sleep there. Photographs from several major series produced over the last thirty years have been selected from her prolific body of work. Fragments of lives in communal apartments in Saint Petersburg sit alongside those of people from the distant Bering Strait and the urban middle classes of Southeast Asia. In these intimate spaces, we encounter a profusion of colours, textures and materials, and many female figures with whom the photographer shared her daily life. 

Just like these interiors, distilling an essence of our ways of inhabiting the world, the exhibitionMatière terrestreis conceived as a condensed version of Françoise Huguier’s lucid genius in telling us about the Earth and its current inhabitants, casually, on the corner of a table, in the smallest details of these intimate moments.