Images as a caress
“For me, images is the other of detachment. It is a approach of touching the other: it's a caress.” This magnificent definition of images in the form of a declaration of love by Nan Goldin is a wonderful entry into the intimacy of the love scenes introduced at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.&
Images as a caress: Caress of the eyes extra immortal than that of the hand? Caress of the skin transposed in the grain of the paper? Caress of the soul floating in a look (misplaced or distraught), abandoning itself or abyssing in an embrace, folding up on itself, in its coronary heart, or clinging to palms…&
Coiled body, languid body, bruised physique…&
Bodies provided, bodies promised, our bodies consumed…&
Listed here are the our bodies photographed by means of the distorting prism of love, or want. Fourteen collection by a few of the biggest photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, introduced as Love Songs.&
Inspired by Nan Goldin’s “Ballad” (The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1979-1986), the exhibition is certainly “conceived as a musical compilation that one would supply to at least one’s lover” with, on aspect A, the collection from the 1950s to 1990s, and on aspect B, the pictures from the 1980s to nowadays (designed by Emmet Gowin, Larry Clark, Sally Mann, RongRong & Inri, and Lin Zhipeng).
In 1952, René Groebli photographed his muse with L’oeil de l’amour, and his footage, filled with tenderness and modesty – a nape of the neck peeking out of a white blouse, a hand smoking on the edge of the mattress, the naked again of his sleeping magnificence… – are like poems. “If I had been a author, I in all probability would have gone to the nearest café to put in writing love poems. For me, the images simply confirmed that I liked her,” the Swiss photographer stated of this collection taken during his honeymoon. Having the identical object, the collection realized in 1971 by Nobuyoshi Araki allows us to see a wierd archaeology of the intimate. Though drawn from his “private novel,” his Sentimental Journey operates a wierd distancing from its topic reworked into self-fiction, as if the theme of love had led the Japanese photographer to a mirrored image on the very essence of images as a staging. It is an erotic staging of want, but in addition of loss and the passage of time, whose chilly frontality places us nose to nose with our personal unfulfillments, touched by this exposure to the deepest of the intimate…
Exhibition Love Songs – Pictures of the intimate
From March 30 to August 21
MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie – 5-7, rue de Fourcy, Paris IV – www.mep-fr.org
And in addition
Nobuyoshi Araki Exhibition&
At the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection – www.pinaultcollection.com
Till March 14th
Stéphanie Dulout&
L’article LOVE SONGS est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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