Porosity

Solo show at Christophe Gaillard Gallery in Paris (scenography by itsourplayground: Camille le Houezec & Joey Villemont)

‘For if photography liberates the mass from its sculptural function, frees it from the heaviness of three-dimensional volume, it does not as a result liberate it from gravity. Moreover, the sculptures rest on pedestals and are not hung on the wall like photographic prints. The artist considers them ‘things,’ and, paraphrasing Heidegger, she states that ‘the word ‘thing’ names everything that is not simply nothing.’ The subtraction of that third dimension, in other words, does not mark a movement toward the immaterial; if ‘things’ orbit in the space of the gallery, they do so in the manner of celestial bodies or meteorites, and the viewer who circulates in the exhibition space is their witness.’

• ARTFORUM review of Porosity read the full article here