Views on Château Lafite Rothschild - 2017

Assaf Shoshan was born in 1973 in Jerusalem. He lives and works between Paris and Tel Aviv. As a photographer and video artist, he questions a world where borders appear and disappear endlessly, a world where time is felt differently. 

“His portraits and landscapes reveal an enigmatic atmosphere, shrouded in mystery and unreality.”

‘The Utopia of Movement’ (L’Utopie du Mouvement) is a series of landscape photographs taken over four seasons around Château Lafite Rothschild, at the invitation of Baron Eric de Rothschild.

For the first time, his work does not include any trace of human activity, thus opening up a new, more ambiguous temporality, with no indication of time. In the same way, he questions movement rather than expectation. Indeed, nature knows no stagnation, no stability. On the contrary, everything moves at its own speed. 

Shoshan was a resident at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici between 2013 and 2014. His work has been exhibited in several galleries and museums in France and Europe, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Macro (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Rome, and the Fondation Lambert in Avignon.