Exhibition : 27 September - 5 October 2025 ***

Encounter with Gina Glover and private viewing : Friday 26 September ***
Opening :
Week-ends : 10.00–12.30 and 15.00–18.30
By appointment during the week.
Contact : 06 47 32 65 22
Free entrance
 

Artist Statement

Gina Glover is an international photographer based in England and the Tarn. Her career spans over four decades, from documenting refugees’ plight in central Africa to media campaigns around HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. More recently, she has been documenting the biological sciences, working with specialist hospital research teams and Cambridge University. She has exhibited and published books on war landscapes, energy, climate change, and plastic pollution. In England, she lives on a former WW2 secret airfield that supported the French resistance.

Locally, she has exhibited her photography about the Gresigne Forest in Puycelsi and in Rabastens. Her latest exhibition in England was A World Fire and Ice, at the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Warwickshire, England, 2024.; it examined energy and climate across the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, the USA, France, Germany, Norway, and the UK. She recently exhibited her work on microplastics in household products at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China and her exhibition on energy and fracking in Houston, Texas. Gina Glover’s commissioned work as an artist-in-residence is on permanent exhibition in over 20 hospitals. Gina is the winner of the Hood Medal from the British Royal Photography Society and the winner (twice) of the Visions of Science Award.

Liminal, her work on display at the Centre for Photography in Gaillac, employs a lens-less (or ‘pinhole’) camera to question the photographic goal of verisimilitude (i.e., ‘copying the world’). Lens-less cameras produce visual results through knowledge and experience, as there is no lens or viewfinder, and film exposure can take hours. These photographs might be read as almost dream images, partly recalling those mental activities that usually disappear upon waking. At the same time, their vagueness and simplicity might also prompt the viewer’s recall of childhood memories.
(Text on liminality attached)

Gina uses alternative photographic techniques, such as lumen and hybrid analogue/digital images, to explore questions of experiential temporality, perceptual imprecision, and to address those childhood experiences which may offer comfort, or conversely may return as a source of worry, during times of personal stress. A selection of these photographs was shown at Hooper’s gallery, London, Le Cinq gallery, Rabastens, France, Coningsby Gallery, London, and, most recently, the Lagrasse festival in France in 2024.

She has published two books based on this series, Objects of Colour : Baltic Coast, a collaboration between Glover and writer/poet Kay Syrad and Liminal. Both will be on view at the exhibition.

Gina Glover’s artwork can be seen on her website at www.ginaglover.com. She can be followed on Instagram @ginaglover
 

Photographs : Gina Glover