With the extension and rearrangement of the exhibition The Dark Side at the Galerie Rabouan Moussion (through May 15) viewers can rediscover the installation piece The Keyhole, displayed at the Grand Palais for the 2012 edition of Art Paris / Art Fair. It is through the keyhole that Dutch artist presents this latest work on the theme of shame, inviting the viewer to become a voyeur.
The subjects in Olaf’s ten portraits strike postures of humility and remorse—perhaps the result of private humiliation suffered on the other side of the lock. They refer to age-old fantasies, evoking in each of us the passing of our lives and the inevitable reckoning of one’s own fragility. The color field of Erwin Olaf’s photographs is shot with darkness. This is what the artist and the Galerie Rabouan Moussion have chosen to present in the exhibition The Dark Side, an artistic testimony to a dark and intense personal journey.
EXHIBITION
Erwin Olaf The Dark Side et The Keyhole
From March 6 to May 15th, 2012
Galerie Rabouan Moussion
121 rue Vieille-du-Temple
75003 Paris
France
