"There exists a long tradition of thinking on photography in terms of its privileged access to the real. Unlike the painting or the drawing, the photograph was alleged to cut through the aesthetic and cultic value: what the camera produced was a document, without aura and free of aesthetic traps".(1)
The recent works by Katharina Sieverding focus on montages and interfaces of spaces, references, and protagonists carried to the extreme.
"Only then, when pushed to its limits, can it (the imago) be held still long enough to begin to ask questions of its nature. What is this thing, the imago, which stands for and yet is not "I'? And what is it that plays with the imago, which works on it from the outside, shapes it, sculpts it? For by definition it is a being that does not stand in the representation, but is external to it, is faceless, "abstract"".(2)
The 23 works in the series "Ressource Terabyte 2009" are upright formats, measuring 190 x 125 cm each, for the most part divided horizontally into three parts and of intensive, complementary, polarizing colour, for example, yellow/magenta, red/green, ultramarine/orange-red, turquoise/pink, coelin/yellow, white/red, etc. The basic structure, the tectonics of this three-part structure are black/white documentaries, fragments of the obsessive recordings of systems of art, economy, history, affection, personal performances, decay.
These colours, filtered highly analogously, function like an abstracting, melting, interdisciplinary cast medium, which may rephrase the questions concerning the colour of truth of documentarisms in the field of art(3), the symbolism of the colours of truth, the affective appropriation and feelings, the "affective turn"(4), and free itself from their conventions. The concern is to establish a counter power. "Perhaps when the imago is built and elaborated this strongly, it can push back some of the forces of normalization and speak in its own name."(5)
CAMERA WORK is pleased to present an exhibition by American photographer Mark Laita. The exhibition will commence on February 4, 2012, and for the first time in Europe will feature the three new series Sea, Serpentine and Amaranthine with unique photographs of the most fascinating sea creatures, the most impressive serpents and ...
« I began my first self-portraits at the age of 10. My maternal grandmother was the spark for this new passion. She was the one who bought me a little red Kodak, even if I remember having to go to great lengths in order to get it. In my first snapshots, I took center stage in front of the camera. I just reproduced what I knew: fashion models. Born to a ...
Applying cultural clichés as a catalyst, the exhibition focuses on stereotypes, which has given cultural meaning to the specificities of a given region, Finland. Literally speaking Finland does not belong to the Arctic in a geographic sense, but the Finns are – as are, sa...
Le masque est le support de la puissance, la médiation entre l’être supérieur, les ancêtres et les humains.Il accompagne l’homme au limite de la vie et du surnaturel. Il met face à face les dieux, les génies et les hommes. La relation entre le photographe et le masque exige un rapport de compréhension, un...
La nouvelle exposition de Marc Le Mené à la galerie Pascal Gabert est une petite rétrospective de son travail photographique qui parcourt une trentaine d’années de création débutant par des autoportraits, des nus, des images de nuit (Paris, Rome) pour se diriger vers des images construites et imagin...
Antoine Picard développe un travail où la nature et la ville se mêlent en des formes autonomes. Dans la rue émergent des signes de réappropriation du végétal, alors que la campagne est parsemées de vestiges urbains. Il semble qu'un ordre nouveau se met en place. L'homme reste le...
La Cité présente Migrants en Guyane, Chercher la vie, une exposition de photographies de Frédéric Piantoni, réalisée en coproduction avec le Musée des cultures guyanaises. En quatre séquences thématiques - les parcours, les quartiers, l’immigration des femmes et les fro...
Après le succès remporté aux foires de photographie contemporaine Chic Art Fair et Fotofever Paris, la galerie Madé vous invite à (re)découvrir le travail d’une jeune artiste aux talents prometteurs, Maia Flore. Pour sa première exposition solo, Maia présentera la série compl&eg...
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