Jeudi 03 Novembre 2016 10:48:28 par Hugues Garnier dans Expositions

Press release

The theme and tool of this exhibition are the practicality applied and at the same time the metaphoric discourses on photography, its artistic conceptuality. The playful but also well calculated investigation of the role which the images have not only for our seeing but also for our thinking. The connection between technic and view, culture and knowledge.

The numeric digital revolution has for the most part displaced analogue cameras and with them photographic emulsion as a medium for the creation of images. The exposure has also been displaced – the immediate, fleeting impression made by light on light-sensitive material. With its rapid processing speeds, the digital conversion of photons into numerical sequences takes place in the blink of an eye – a computational operation that is too fast for us to perceive.
 
This conflict between the medium of analogue photography and digital imagery lies at the heart of Martin Zellerhoff’s photographic interests, a creative project with a cultural dimension. Compared with digital imaging, analogue photography occupies a different place in our experience, which is generally manual. As anthropomorphic beings we interpret our impressions, compare them with previous experiences alongside reason, our emotions play a role in our experiences. As a rational being we create programs, concepts and plans, and hope that our senses and emotion don’t intervene in their midst to derail everything.

© Martin Zellerhoff, Untitled (Kodachrome 64, KB 24 Exp), 2009