Exposition Adam Fuss - Ark

Château La Coste is delighted to present a new photography exhibition dedicated to Adam Fuss, a major artist on the international scene. Entitled Ark, this retrospective exhibition highlights more than three decades of photographic creation, exploring the central themes of the artist's work: life, death, memory, and the sacred.

A retrospective of Adam Fuss: between experimentation and spirituality

The title Ark refers to an iconic series created by Adam Fuss in 1987, based on a single drop of water. As in many of the artist's works, the natural world is captured through a symbolic approach, distilled to reveal its spiritual essence.

Since the 1980s, Adam Fuss has been pushing the boundaries of traditional photography, using alternative techniques such as pinhole photography, photograms, and daguerreotypes. Rejecting the use of conventional cameras, his works are born from the direct encounter between light and photosensitive paper, producing not representations, but true imprints: the physical trace of a moment.

An immersive exhibition at the heart of Château La Coste

The Ark exhibition is spread across two galleries: Galerie Bastide and Galerie des Anciens Chais, in the form of an immersive installation. Adam Fuss's works interact with an exceptional selection of vintage photographs from his personal collection.

These include rare prints by Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot, Eugène Atget, and Frederick Evans, as well as anonymous photographs that bear witness to a bygone world. Fuss states:

"Historical photographic images open a door to a vanished world... They awaken emotions; they are the memory of our collective past. "

These old images echo the fundamental concerns of Fuss's work: beauty, birth, death, sex, and love.