Charlotte Gainsbourg’s first photography

exhibition, 5bis, with the support of Saint Laurent

by Anthony Vaccarello and Maja Hoffmann, will be

presented as part of the 57th Rencontres d’Arles

photography festival. The exhibition, curated by

Matthieu Humery, comprising of many previously

unseen images of the home of her father Serge

Gainsbourg at 5bis Rue de Verneuil in Paris, will be

held at La Galerie du Cloître in Arles from July 6

to September 6, 2026. It will then travel to Paris,

where it will be shown at the Saint Laurent Rive

Droite boutique from September 24th.

With 5bis, Charlotte Gainsbourg documents

Maison Gainsbourg just before it became a

museum dedicated to the life and work of her

father Serge Gainsbourg, one of France’s most

famous sons — a singer, songwriter, poet, actor,

cultural statesman, and, at times, provocateur.

Ahead of its opening to the public, Ms. Gainsbourg

took her Hasselblad to the place where she once

lived and photographed it. What resulted can be

seen in 5bis: An exhibition that is an act of love,

memory, and remembrance, featuring over

twenty intimate images. Together they take us

through the Gainsbourg home as any of us might

visit a place that’s deeply familiar: Emotional

flashes of the past coming clearly and

poignantly into the present.

The accompanying 5bis book, published by Saint

Laurent Editions, will be available in several

versions: a standard edition of one thousand

copies, a limited edition of fifteen books, each of

which includes five silver gelatin prints, and

lastly, nine artist’s editions, with an additional

silver gelatin print and text handwritten by

Charlotte Gainsbourg herself. Yet with exhibition

and book alike, 5bis reveals how Charlotte

Gainsbourg has transformed memory and

nostalgia into artistic creation.