What is exposed behind the surface? What makes a place a crime scene? How do the forms that elude people's limited sense of sight become visible, creating links between microscopic spores and the unreachable corners of the universe? The exhibition The Invisible Image proposes a take on these questions, showing works that move around the notion of the documentary, testing the spectator’s imagination in the unfolding of their stories.
MAC ADAMS
Mac Adams was born in 1943 in South Wales. He lives and works in New York. For more than 30 years Mac Adams has explored the narrative potential of photography and installation, composing and constructing mysterious scenes on the border of social norms.
Potential homicides, victims and could-be assassins populate his compositions, held together by a series of clues, carefully and methodically left by artist. The story and its fragmented reading is the essential element in the work of Mac Adams, a leading figure in the narrative photography movement of the 1970s.
Whereas Conceptual Art and Minimalism accessed pieces of evidence, documents, and auxiliary information from outside the work, Mac Adams continues to reveal a story from entirely within the frame. Taking his inspiration from popular culture, crime movies, film noire, and mystery novels, he creates static fictions within a tableau.
Using a process that is cinematographic as much as photographic, theatrical as sculptural, he invites viewers into the space-time of the work. These frozen moments, like the space between sequential moving images, are imbedded with multiple narratives, speaking from an indefinite place found between what we see and what we know exists.
DOVE ALLOUCHE
Dove Allouche was born in 1972 in Sarcelles, he lives and works in Paris.
“My works essentially consists in undertaking a task, by which and after which I will be able, for myself, to find something I had not first seen. I don’t try to reveal things that are absolutely buried, forgotten for hundreds or thousands of years, nor to find what was hidden by others, a secret someone try to hide. I don’t try to discover a new meaning concealed in things and discourses."
"No, I simply try to reveal what is immediately present and invisible at the same time. My approach is of a presbyope. I would like to reveal what is too close from our sight to be seen, what is here right next to us, but through which we watch to watch something else. Seize « the invisibility of what is too visible » as Foucault would say.” (Dove Allouche)
