‘Behind closed eyelids’ is an exhibition of worn-out objects salvaged from waste, collected and then ‘ritualised’, by Magali Lambert. Her rituals blend words and images, making tired shapes tell stories and hint at mysteries. From the basement to the hallway, from the treasure chest to the transparent souvenir shrine, everything is fragile, evoking the precious yet precarious nature of life.
“The images on show are taken from the Comme ils respirent (As they breathe) series, a collection of defunct love stories. I photograph the people who share my life. After every break-up, I select a photograph of that lover and associate it with one of the objects that shared our lives. The object has to be transparent. And there begins the process. I take the object into the dark room and apply a traditional method to develop the photograph of the lost one onto the glass object. When their image emerges from the developer solution, I then know that the affair belongs to the past. Yet I’ll always be able to reach the memory through the reliquary object.
Without light, it remains illegible, nonetheless – you have to throw light on the memory to reach it.”
EXHIBITION
Derrière Les Paupières Closes (Behind closed eyelids)
Magali Lambert
From May 13th to July 2nd 2016
Arielle d’Hauterives
rue Tasson Snelstraat, 37
B-1060 Brussels
Belgium
http://www.arielledhauterives.be
https://magalilambert.wordpress.com
