écorce

2014 — Exhibition view

DNSEP art, isdaT

institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse

 

Digigraphy on mat paper

 

300 x 210 cm

 

Produced by isdaT

 

 

Photography crops the world into pieces, selects from it, frames it, fragments it. Here it loses its documentary appearance to become more and more abstract. The referent is erased, sanded down to excess. The powder extracted from the print fades and vanishes from the support, leaving only barely legible traces, heaps of black shapes, large lines of ink still on the paper, like charcoal drawing marks. Écorce, on its tortured, torn paper surface, is an abstraction, a subtraction of a part of the photograph that crumbles and fades.

 

The artist dissects by her gesture the layers of paper, cancels the realistic effect of the photograph by damaging its surface, degrading its flesh, scraping its skin and peeling its texture to establish a new, delicate balance. Leaving a fragile, almost transparent trace of the material that opens and melts into the white of the wall on which it is plated.

 

It is a deconstruction of the image and its representation. The scraping of the paper also gives the photograph a thickness that is often denied, it affirms the materiality of the photograph. The visible is then displayed through deconstruction and alteration.