BERLIN.- Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi announces BEDROOM, CHRISTMAS MORNING an exhibition showing original hand-printed colour photographs by Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie, alongside If I Just Turn and Run (1998), a video by the late Ellen Cantor. The series of fourteen images taken by Ernaux & Marie formed the basis for their book The Use of Photography [L'Usage de la photo (Gallimard, 2005; English translation: Fitzcarraldo Editions / Seven Stories Press, 2024)]; this is the first time they have been exhibited.

Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular The Years and Happening, have become contemporary classics in France and are also internationally renowned. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Marc Marie was a French photographer and journalist. Born in 1962, after studying modern literature, he divided his time between writing and freelance journalism.

Ellen Cantor was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1961; she lived and worked in London and New York City until her death in 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with exhibitions and screenings at Cabinet, London; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Feigen Gallery, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; MoMA PS1, New York; Participant Inc, New York; Postmasters, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, and White Columns, New York, among many other venues.