Collective exhibition — Éblouissements
Exhibition from 17 February to 24 March 2023
Galerie VU’ – Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint-Lazare, 75009 Paris
Wednesday 22 February 2023 from 6.30 pm to 9 pm
Opening in presence of the artists
This exhibition is about light. It is of course the very material of photography, but it is also what composes it or devours it, what shapes the subject or erases it.
The works of our authors, whether in black and white or in colour, silver or digital, produced by electronograms (without light), in the camera or with a scanner, are all apprehensions and experiences of light.
The dazzle, in the literal and figurative sense (wonder, visual disturbance, vertigo, fulgurance or impossibility of perception), is the field of investigation of our artists. They explore apparitions as well as spectres, they show what is invisible to the naked eye as well as the vertigo and confusion of the burst of a too bright light. They relate the experience of ecstasy as well as that of darkness, disappearance or blindness. In some of them, it is a question of playing with the visible and the non-visible, from the bright light to the deepest darkness: sometimes the light chisels the slightest detail, sometimes it plunges us into abstraction to make us lose all reference points.