Elein Fleiss
Vent noir
Opening Thursday, 24 April, 2025, 6-9 pm
25 April – 17 May
Join us for the opening of Vent noir, an exhibition by Elein Fleiss, on Thursday, 24 April, 2025, from 6 to 9 pm.
Vent noir presents a selection of photographs from Elein Fleiss’ archive and recent works in a non chronological constellation. Composed around an image of a forming puddle and scattered petals after a heavy downpour, it immerses us in a shadowy universe and disenchanted spring, while offering a reflection on the act of remembrance and the feeling of melancholy.
Elein Fleiss (born in 1968) is an editor, curator, writer, and photographer whose publications include Elein’s Diary (Adachi Press, 2020), Septembre (One Star Press, 2008), and Fifteen Hours from Paris (Poetry of Sex, 2003). Her photographs have been published in magazines such as Purple, Big, Ryuko Tsushin, Here and There, Kurachi no Techo, Home, The Plant, and Josefffine… Along with Olivier Zahm, she co-founded Purple Prose magazine in 1992, followed by Purple Fiction, Purple Fashion, and Purple Sexe. Together, they also co-organized exhibitions, including L’Hiver de l’amour at the Musée d’Art Moderne in 1994 and Elysian Fields at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2000. From 1998 to 2004, she co-edited Purple magazine, then Hélène, before leaving the Purple Institute. She later co-founded and co-edited Purple Journal with Sébastien Jamain until 2008. In 2010, she published the sole issue of Les Cahiers Purple. During 2012, she published the online daily journal Les Chroniques Purple, which was later turned into a book and an exhibition in 2014 in Japan, where she also exhibited her photographic work at Gallery Trax and the Top Museum. More recently, she has paired her photography with a selection of vintage clothing in solo exhibitions such as Disappearing (Center for Cosmic Wonder, 2018) and L’Hiver (Vacant, Elbereth, 2024). In 2023, she opened Le Batèl with artist Andie Wilkinson, a second-hand clothing and objects shop in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, a village in the Rouergue region.