Photographer Hedison emerges from celebrity shadow in Paris
PARIS — The mass bombings, shootings and other extremist attacks that have anguished Paris inspired American photographer Alexandra Hedison to exhibit her art in the emotionally winded city.
“I showed here because Paris deserved this work first….I owed Paris solidarity,” Hedison said during an interview at H-Gallery, where a 24-piece exhibit that marks her Paris debut opened last month.
The gallery lies a few hundred yards from the Bataclan concert hall, one of the sites of the Nov. 13, 2015 attacks that killed 130 people. Monday is the two-year anniversary.
The choice of location for Hedison’s show, entitled “The In Between,” was not random. The down-to-earth former actress — better known to some as actress-director Jodie Foster’s wife — said a gut “feeling” informed her that geographical proximity would be fitting for the work so charged by the tragic events.