Image © Josephine Thorsby, “Nesting”, 2023
IMAGES LATENTES
Group Show
January 24th – February 10th 2024 at Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center
Wed – Sat, 1pm – 7pm
Opening – Friday January 20th, 2024, 6pm to 9pm
In the presence of the artists
With the participation of : Kenza Belghiti-Alaoui, Marlone Belinga Cleon, Elise Bonnelle, Lou Dalifard, Nadia Ermakova, Gral, Paul Kermarec, Nicolas Lebeau, Gaetane Martinot, Céline Rivalta, Ulises Tapia Garcia, Josephine Thorsby
The exhibition was produced in collaboration with the guest artist Stéphanie Solinas, an invitation by Christian Genty and Jeff Guess (ENSAPC).
What if the proclaimed dematerialization of the contemporary digital photographic image (despite its real substantiality in data centers and other concrete artifacts upon which it rests) led to a renewal of the forms and modalities of the presence of specters that photography has ceaselessly produced since its invention? This is the starting point for these artists, students at the ENSAPC, whose works were developed under the watchful eye of visual artist Stéphanie Solinas. By reviving the materiality of photographic picture-making, these practices assert their relationship, sometimes symbolic and ambiguous, with a history of photographic revelation, the printed object, and chemical and optical processes. The latent image, inscribed by light on silver-based film but still awaiting development, becomes a principle and method for thinking about the manifestation of bodies in an indeterminate space, of inscribing figures in the extended temporality of appearances and, above all, of the power of leaving traces.
