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Photographic Deconstruction

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Is a still image, or in other words, a unique image — a photographic image — still self-sufficient?

The exhibition Photographic Deconstruction, on display at the Topographie de l’art in Paris, is a conversation among artists-photographers-designers who deliberately confront realms other than their own and are brought together precisely for the diversity of their approaches, as well as for their desire to generate new meanings. What Catherine Rebois, the exhibition curator and an artist photographer, proposes is a dialog and a meditation. To deconstruct means to unpack through analysis, but it also means to show the different connections that allow us to understand how something might take shape in another way. This questioning is necessary and even topical.

The artists Joan Fontcuberta, Vera Lutter, Eric Rondepierre, Isabelle Le Minh, Laurent Millet, Albelardo Morel, Alain Fleischer, Christiane Feser, Pol Bury, Catherine Rebois, Julien Lombardi, and NASA robots, each in his or her (or its) own way — and this is the whole point of the exhibition — envision the idea of deconstruction and its reversals in a singular way, raising further questions.

We owe the invention of the photographic sequence to the American Eadweard Muybridge and the Frenchman Étienne-Jules Marey. And so it is to science and research on the representation of time and duration that we owe Étienne-Jules Marey’s first book, entitled La Machine animale, published in 1873. It was followed by Eadweard Muybridge’s 1881 publication of a portfolio of photographs, entitled The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, which brought together his research on decomposition.

This chronology would not be complete without evoking scrolling images, otherwise known as chronophotography. The artists featured in the present exhibition offer contemporary takes on the questions of deconstruction and fragmentation. These questions, of course, connect with the artists’ own subjects, and the forms correspond to the thoughtful — and self-reflexive — attention which is characteristic of photography.

Photographic Deconstruction
September 10 – November 12, 2016
Topographie de l’art
15, rue de Thorigny
75003 Paris
 
http://www.topographiedelart.fr/

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