Palace of Versailles brings together five internationally renowned photographers
The intimate surroundings of the Trianon will be the setting for the Palace of Versailles’ 12th exhibition of modern art. Versailles – Visible/Invisible leads us as if through the antique darkroom of five photographers: Dove Allouche, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Eric Poitevin and Viviane Sassen, who will unveil works they have created specially to resonate with the chosen setting. This exhibition showcases their original and often surprising perspectives on not only the palace’s most well-known spaces, but also its hidden gems.The works will reveal a new Versailles, between design and heritage. Photographer, printmaker and designer Dove Allouche, who was born in Paris in 1972, likes to reveal that which is simultaneously obvious and invisible. Like the concept of ‘magic eye’ images, he endeavours to depict things that are too close to the eye to be seen, that are right there in front of us but through w