the exhibition can be seen on the website of the gallery
galerie vrais rêves
www.vraisreves.com
Improbable lmages and orographies - 2017
It all starts in 2011.
The images presented did not exist and should never have existed. But now,
a combination of circumstances,
some will call this a chance or an accident of course, decided otherwise.
They formed, to disappear almost instantly. And to be honest, I did not see
much, but I was there.
Everything happened so fast. The taking of snapshots froze improbable images,
in any case unforeseen.
Blind capture, materialization of an impossible image.
Time and space are, so to speak, compressed. At the same time, the image fragmented,
fixing in this fleeting time different moments. Photography has become a concentration
of information reorganizing places, beings and time.
Do not be in reaction, let things settle down, the time it takes to reappear
and reveal themselves, the beginnings of a dialogue.
Thus, the process can be put in place. First there were plans. All are from
photographs. By projection.
At the same time structure of the image by the purity of the lines, they escape
from the source. This flattening through engraved lines highlighted with white
becomes the trace of something, a plane on the ground? A fingerprint ?
A new representation is built with its landmarks, a circulation. Until exhaustion.
Of the material. From memory. As for time, it could be old, even very old.
Here or in other countries. The same process can be seen in Les cartridges,
this time with men who are busy, lines that collide, but all in a temporality
that is familiar to us. And finally a drawing that puts everything, filters
and just keeps suggesting.
Touch the surface, extract the epidermis before the wind
has swept everything. Deinking will live the test
the erasure, no doubt, but at what rate, no one knows and that's good. Images
that are put to the test in a projection and printing process change in nature.
Each droplet has started a migration. Not among all the points, they seem
to resist together a near disappearance. Let's take a look for a few more
moments, as long as it's possible, after it will be just too late.
In this race against the clock, the inked impressions became matrices and
recorded a stage of their existence.
Perhaps this is the substance of thought, that scarcely recognizable imprint
that has just disappeared.
Stored somewhere, it can be reactivated, or not ...
Benedicte Reverchon - 12/2017
