The screen between us

From June 6 to 20, 2025, the Intervalle Gallery is pleased to return to 16 rue de Montmorency, in Paris’s 3rd arrondissement—a space it first occupied during its collaboration with the Gosserez Gallery in late 2024. On that occasion, a group exhibition brought together three artists represented by the gallery: Lucas Leffler (Belgium, 1993), Julien Mignot (France, 1981), and Jean-Vincent Simonet (France, 1991).
“The Screen Between Us” explores our relationship with the screen, the central interface of our lives. Three artists from Intervalle are reinventing photography in a world saturated with images.
Lucas Leffler presents two new photographic sculptures created using 168 used iPhone screens. These works embody the collapse of the Kodak factories in Rochester (USA) in 2007, a pivotal year symbolizing the transition from film to digital photography. The artist individually prints each screen using the ambrotype technique, a 19th-century process. This gesture contrasts the fragility and precision of the film era with the coldness and mass production of today’s technology. Through this fusion of eras, Leffler offers Kodak a poetic and symbolic revenge against Apple, and celebrates the fragile memory of traditional photography. This series was first presented at Paris Photo in November 2024.
To mark the release of his book *Fashion Eye Osaka* (Éditions Louis Vuitton), Jean-Vincent Simonet presents a previously unseen diptych, specially designed for the exhibition. The artist continues his exploration of the concept of “fake.” He explores the boundary between the natural and the artificial by experimenting with pigments and artificial colors: he photographs the city, then manually alters his large-format prints. He rubs the still-wet ink onto special paper in his family’s print shop. This unique process is described by the artist as a “reversed darkroom.” His work oscillates between X-ray and hallucination.
Finally, Intervalle is very pleased to once again showcase pieces—some of which have never been exhibited before—from Julien Mignot’s Screenlove series. Inspired by *Rear Window* and his memories of adolescence, this series freezes images from risqué webcams within translucent blocks. Depending on the viewing angle, the image appears or disappears, reflecting the elusive nature of intimacy through the screen. A paradoxical interface that connects without ever truly touching, the screen transforms the viewer into a voyeur, caught up in the quest for an illusory encounter.