Christophe Guye Galerie presents a focused solo booth by Stéphane Couturier, bringing together works from E1027+123 – Villa Eileen Gray and the new series Corbusier Pavilion – Zurich, shown here for the first time. The presentation combines photographic works with a large-scale tapestry, deliberately challenging the boundaries of the medium. Neither series has previously been presented in the UK.
Rather than documenting architecture, Couturier dismantles it. His practice operates through digital layering, fragmentation and recomposition, transforming modernist buildings into unstable pictorial structures. In E1027+123, the contested authorship of Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027 becomes a visual field where Gray’s spatial logic and Le Corbusier’s interventions collide and are reconfigured into dense, constructed images.
The new works on the Corbusier Pavilion – Zurich push this approach further. The pavilion is treated not as an icon, but as a system to be dissected. Its steel grid, colour panels and reflections are overlaid with additional architectural views and, in selected works, with fragments of Le Corbusier’s tapestries previously exhibited in the building. This introduces a deliberate friction between architecture and textile, structure and surface.
The inclusion of Tapisserie #1 (2025) extends this tension into physical space, translating photographic layering into a woven, material form. Here, the image is no longer confined to the photographic surface but becomes spatial, tactile and durational.
The booth proposes a rigorous and self-contained curatorial statement: photography is no longer a medium of representation, but a site of construction. Couturier’s work repositions architectural photography as a critical, generative practice that destabilises perception and authorship alike.
