June 25, 2009—New York, NY—CLIC GALLERY is proud to present the New York debut of SPACE PROJECT by VINCENT FOURNIER. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, October 7 from 6 to 9 pm. The show will run from October 6 through November 1, 2009.

SPACE PROJECT is a photography series based on Fournier’s fascination with the Jules Verne novel “From the Earth to the Moon.” Fournier photographed observatories and astronaut training stations in some of the most desolate places in the world, including the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center of the Russian Federation, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, and the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile. His ghostly, composed photographs--mysterious, space suited men walking on a vast desert plain, a researcher quietly sitting in a blindingly white sterile environment, abandoned monitors blinking codes in a simulation room—have an otherworldly, unreal aesthetic. In these fascinating images, Fournier explores the paranoia and darkness of man’s attraction to the disconnect of space.

Photographer VINCENT FOURNIER was born in Burkina Faso, studied in France, and is now based in Belgium. He holds a diploma from the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie. He has exhibited at Acte 2 Galerie in Paris, the Young Gallery in Brussels, the Marunouchy Gallery in Tokyo, 27AD in Bergamo and has participated in festivals and fairs in Paris, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo and Switzerland. This is his first show in New York.

CLIC GALLERY is the newest venture from Christiane Celle, and is devoted exclusively to emerging photographers and artists. Sister shop CLIC BOOKSTORE, located at 189 Lafayette Street, offers a curated selection of high quality photography books. including a limited edition companion book to the show, “Space Project”.

For additional information, please email info@clicgallery.com or call 212-219-9308.