2024-03-31 13:43:11
“Making Light of Every Thing” is a group exhibition on view at the Geneva Center of Photography until April 28. It presents works with manipulated images, notably thanks to artificial intelligence, and reveals the most personal expression of emotions, memory and intimacy.
Intimacy is a concept that is often difficult to define and can be found in a childhood memory, inside one’s home, in gestures exchanged with loved ones, in the familiarity of an image or even in attachment. to an object, a material or a texture.
“Without directly showing situations immediately identifiable as intimate, how can photography express a relationship to this feeling, its fleeting and impalpable character? How can it image the relationships to memory, necessarily fallible, the often complex links and changing to loved ones, or even the relationship to a home whose familiarity can turn strange at any moment?”, writes the Geneva Center of Photography in its presentation of “Making light of every thing”.
Through image manipulation processes such as artificial intelligence, DIY, collages, photomontage, the artists brought together in this collective exhibition attempt to make visible a form of intimacy, of the most personal expression of a feeling.
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, “Like an explosion of flowers in the desert”, 2022. [Centre de la photographie, Genève – Mathieu Bernard-Reymond]
Making the notion of intimacy more tangible
The images exhibited in “Making Light of Every Thing” are not traditional photographs. These image fabrications make the notion of intimacy more palpable and truer. “Our bias was to say that an image that is constructed, manufactured, manipulated in multiple ways, can also express something of our intimate relationship with the world,” explains Danaé Panchaud, director of the Geneva Center of Photography in the Vertigo show on March 21.
For example, before she was 12, Sara De Brito Faustino had no memories of her childhood. Her difficult personal story is at the heart of her work and it is through her models that she attempts to reconstruct the missing images. “I very laboriously reconstructed the scene in 3D but with impressions that come from the scanning of film photographs. It’s a kind of obsession on my part to live this moment and enter these scenes” , she says in the Vertigo show.
Sara De Brito Faustino, Untitled, 2023. [Centre de la photographie de Genève]
Generate images to talk regarding our memories, make small models to talk regarding your childhood home, adjust colored papers in front of the camera to create magnificent abstract compositions, or even assemble images to create places that don’t exist , these are the proposals made by the artists of this collective exhibition. The works exhibited in “Making Light of Every Thing” highlight the striking, but also sometimes fallible, strange and reconstructed nature of memories.
Comments collected by Florence Grivel
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“Making Light of Every Thing”, avec Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Jessica Backhaus, Emma Bedos, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Sara De Brito Faustino, Charlie Engman, Alina Frieske, Peter Hauser, Moritz Jekat, Leigh Merrill, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Martin Widmer, Center de la photographie de Genève, from February 28 to April 28, 2024.
On April 18, 2024, a round table conference on artificial intelligence will be held at the Geneva Center for Photography.
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