The idea of the archive is recurrent in philosophical and artistic thought. In addition to the principles of preservation and conservation, the archive relies on a constellation of ideas of identity, traceability, temporality, space, memory, existence, materiality and historicity. All these questions inspire artists working in different media to manipulate, mix, index, saved from oblivion, and take over archives—audio, visual, filmed, written—or even invent them. The photographs of Stephan Crasneanscki show us the very real and somewhat forgotten audiovisual archive of Jean-Luc Godard, rediscovered by accident somewhere in France.
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EXHIBITION
Stephan Crasneanscki
Paris Photo 2014
From 13 to 14 November 2014
Stand A9
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75005 Paris
France
http://www.parisphoto.com
INFORMATIONS
Ilan Engel Gallery
77, rue des Archives
75003 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 42 77 43 38
[email protected]
http://www.ilanengelgallery.com
