Séance: Shannon Taggart

Echo Fine Art is proud to present the first exhibition in France dedicated to American photographer Shannon Taggart. As a gallery committed to exploring photography as a medium, we are honored to introduce an artist whose work seeks to make the invisible visible.

Taggart’s engagement with Spiritualism began in her teens, after an inexplicable message from a medium revealed details about her grandfather’s death. Years later, this experience led her to Lily Dale, New York (the world’s largest Spiritualist community) where she began a photographic inquiry that grew into an eighteen-year study of mediumship, its rituals, and its visual history.

Working within Spiritualist circles in the United States, England, and Europe, Taggart investigates the fragile boundary between the material and immaterial, engaging with the movement’s long and often overlooked relationship to photography, including the historic pursuit of “ectoplasm.”

SÉANCE, presented for the first time to a French audience, features approximately 40 photographs from this extensive body of work. These haunting, carefully observed works reveal Taggart’s sustained attempt to capture what resides at the edge of perception.

Accompanied by a the reedition of her eponymous publication featuring contributions from Dan Aykroyd, Andreas Fischer, and Tony Oursler, the project reflects on Spiritualism’s ties to art, science, and technology, and on photography’s unique capacity to probe the unknown.