What is it that a photograph unlocks? What happens to this one word among others when the nudity in the portrait unlocks it, that is to say, is it made bigger, does it fondle it? In what sense can the “image” itself be laid bare? These are the questions posed by Jacqueline Devreux whose works are absolutely astonishing because they are fractal without being provoking. They link nudity to the exhibition but do much more: they go a step further. The word “photograph” is laid bare so that what was created by the Belgian artist is lacking in what usually goes along with the idea of nudity. Complicit admiration makes way for reflection.
Nudity is the opposite of unveiling, unveiling the opposite of nudity. The fevered exhibition remains in the photographic language. “Playing” to the gallery and sometimes the “demonic” priestess – the artist such as Madame Edwarda de Bataille orders the voyeur: “You must look, look”. But do not be deceived, the works are an invitation for us to stare at and decipher them. However the work does not look for the communication of a secret but for communion in the secret of the incommunicable. The work presents an intimacy so that it resonates with a collective echo. In this sense the artist remains faithful wo what Valéry wrote in “Literature” when he wrote: “The best work is that which keeps its secret the longest”.
EXHIBITION
« I’ll have your skin »
Jacqueline Devreux
From April 16th to May 4th, 2016
Galerie Pierre Hallet
Rue Ernest Allard 33
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
https://www.galeriepierrehallet.com
http://www.jacquelinedevreux.be
