«The digital world is increasing and the analogue world is contracting,» says Carmen Winant, who has turned the huge assortment of archival photographs and their reappropriation into a new plastic and narrative medium. Following the example of the American photographer, whose photographs in her latest mural mosaics are detached from the wall to occupy the area in all its three dimensions, a lot of artists right now use the photographic picture, freed from its position of representation, as a uncooked material, a substrate to be explored, decomposed and recomposed.
It's to these a number of practices that the new Offscreen exhibition, whose first version has just been held in the sumptuous Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild (11, rue Berryer) in Paris, is dedicated. Movies, movies, immersive installations, photographic mobiles, mild sculptures, digital works… this truthful, which welcomes both historical and rising artists, comes at the proper time to take account of the mutations and extensions of the photographic subject, which is present process an entire metamorphosis..
PARIS
Mustapha Azeroual / Binome Gallery
Represented by the Binome Gallery, which focuses on new forms of images that transcend the presupposed limits of the picture (flatness, two-dimensionality, temporality), Mustapha Azeroual is creating alchemical research at the frontier of matter and immateriality, of the seen and the invisible, which might be mistaken for a loopy dream like the search for the Philosopher’s Stone: It is a question of fixing mild, which is by definition intangible, of «reifying» it and, in so doing, of introducing into the materiality of the picture a mutability, that of the ever-changing mild. Thus, in his Monade collection, he succeeded in «capturing» luminous flashes in layers of fluorescent pigments using the previous technique of printing with gum bichromate, whereas in his Radiance collection he succeeded in multiplying the «photographic moment»: the results of hundreds of photographs of the identical panorama at daybreak and nightfall – digitally synthesized earlier than composing an abstract portray with polychrome stripes by superimposition. These hypnotic canvases differ infinitely, based on the actions of the viewer… A captivating «expertise of time» by way of the colours of light…
© Mustapha Azeroual Actin
PARIS
Daisuke Yokota/ Jean-Kenta Gauthier
It's also as pure material and not as an image (representing an external reality) that the Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota considers his relationship to the photographic medium. Produced by solarization – overexposure of the damaging movie producing an inversion of values (darkish/mild) -, his collection w show the last stage of the mutation of the photographic picture into an abstract portray, of the «imprint» (of the actual) into spots. Shifting shadows, video games of brilliance and opacity, of fluctuations and imbrications, of superimpositions and reverberations, flows, mottles, moirages… Composing two giant polyptychs, these «photographic paintings» composed from abstract work reworked into negatives, reverse our look.
CHICAGO
Carmen Winant/ Patron Gallery
In the nice maelstrom of photographs of our digitalized world, Carmen Winant attracts as if from a bottomless pit and, in response to the hundreds of photographs collected, recomposes narratives blurring the border between the intimate and the collective. Positioned aspect by aspect and hollowed out, minimize out in their middle as if to carry up a mirror to us, these distorted pictures converse to us of invisibility and disappearance, of the universality of pain and small happinesses, of the interchangeability of factors of view and perhaps additionally of bodies and hearts dispossessed of their interiority…
© Carmen Wiant and PATRON
© Carmen Wiant and PATRON
Stéphanie Dulout
L’article OFFSCREEN / JOURNEY est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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