Philippe Abergel presents an exhibition entitled I Remember until December 21 at Galerie XII in Santa Monica. He writes:
The project arises from a reflexion on the medium of photography.
Indeed, a framing, as perfect as it may be, is very rarely able to show the sensation that one experiences before the extraordinary richness of a landscape born of chaos.
In order to reintroduce poetry and chance, Abergel has imagined a shooting protocol that forces him to build a mental image before starting to photograph.
This project is also largely based on memory, a fundamental notion for him in photography.
How to evoke the emotion of a distant and diffuse memory, how to transcribe the “holes” in the memory of a moment.
What happens between two photos becomes fundamental, the few seconds between two shots shift the movement of the scene, chance and vagueness come to slip there and the final photo can group several time spaces because there can be several seconds of gap between two successive photos of each band…
This project therefore calls on both hemispheres, the right brain for the technique and the very particular concentration it requires and the left brain for the search for emotion, in the absence of which a photo has no interest.
To carry out this project and after many tests, Abergel therefore manufactured a camera system that allows him to cover a larger surface of the film, to photograph also between the training notches of the film and to add also unpredictable results.
It is also, of course, a tribute to the film 24×36.
Philippe Abergel
Philippe Abergel : Je me souviens
Until December 21, 2024
Galerie XII
Bergamote Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Santa Monica CA 90404
www.galeriexii.com
