This June, Saint Laurent Babylone is hosting ‘Daydreaming of Him,’ a photography exhibition by French-Australian artist Christopher Barraja, curated by Anthony Vaccarello. The exhibition marks Barraja’s first major presentation at the Left Bank cultural space and offers an intimate look into a body of work shaped by memory, desire and the sun-soaked landscapes of the Mediterranean. Vaccarello has spent his tenure at Saint Laurent building a cultural programme that runs parallel to the runway work, using the Rive Droite platform to champion artists and photographers whose sensibility aligns with the house’s broader universe. Previous Rive Droite collaborations have included Beijing photographer Lin Zhipeng, known for his depictions of Chinese youth culture and a vision that recalls the sensuality and poetry of Wong Kar-Wai films. Barraja arrives in that tradition and fits it naturally. Born in Nice in 1996 and now working between Paris and the Côte d’Azur, Barraja treats the south of France as an ambiguous space, simultaneously real and imagined, where the everyday accumulates emotional tension and hidden meaning. His photographs are built on suggestion, on light used almost as a material in itself, on the kind of image that does not tell you what to feel so much... Read more »
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