Medium Transferts : A story from painting to photography

Medium Transferts exhibition features a selection of painted and photographic works, in which the artists explore the links between these two media through their techniques, themes and sometimes both. 

Aquatic reflections for Jean-Paul Agosti, where light pierces color. 

Amélie Chassary reinterprets the codes of still life in carefully staged, colorful and silent works. 

Kahina Loumi's work is based on observation of the landscape, taking snapshots whose minimal essence of form and color is reflected on canvas, retaining only their pure expression.

Eleonora Paciullo presents “Les Cahiers Bleus”, a series of cyanotypes like fragments of everyday life, reminiscent of a diary. Fleeting, stolen moments. Using this ancient process, she makes it possible to print on glass plates. The blue monochrome of this technique is the narrative thread between each image, recreating the pieces of an enigma to be revealed or kept secret.

Eleonora Strano takes as her starting point a series of visuals in the most formal documentary style about the inhabitants of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, from which she herself hails. By manipulating the prints, she creates material effects that leave room for the random, the uncertain, revealed by the abstract rendering. When the images dissolve, what remains on the surface are the traces of a passage, the chemical emulsion of the elements blurring tracks, erasing identities and pointing to the ephemerality of human presence.

Beck Marshall dissects the landscape in the silent, secretive Lot countryside. Like a naturalist, she reminds us how much a movement like Impressionism, for example, sought to make visible the luminous and colorful subtleties of natural corners bathed in green.

If painting had to reinvent itself with the advent of photography, dialogues have been established right up to the present day.

 

Annabelle AUDREN.