On the 20th of September 2020, in between two Covid pandemic waves, I was able to travel to Switzerland to install my solo exhibition In Various Parts at Espace dAM in Romainmotier.
I’m very honoured to be able to show Construction V and VI and a new series ‘Layered photos’ of drawings on photography. These photographs were taken with my analog Nikkormat camera from a series of small constructions I made with wooden toy blocks. The photos have been printed on Barriet paper and drawn upon with brush and black ink.
During my residence at ARC in Romainmotier, I got to know the galleries of the artist Alberto de Andrés. Alberto wrote a text on my work. Check the whole text on his website. (FR)
As for the Indian ink drawings on photographic prints, they both invoke and challenge one of the foundations of modern Western thought: representation based on the system of linear perspective developed in the Renaissance by drawing inspiration from geometric and mathematical models dating back to Antiquity. They remind us of the invention and use of the camera obscura - a machine for seeing, conceiving and drawing the world in linear perspective. This device, already referred to by Aristotle, but rediscovered, developed and theorised by, among others, two architects, Leon Battista Alberti and Filippo Brunelleschi during the Renaissance, to “plan” (i.e. to linearly plot) their buildings.
The exhibition is on view till May 16th 2021.