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It lies on the field of contemporary art as that of photography. This work is accomplished with great honesty vis-à-vis the material found, sometimes dusty, faded, damaged, including the imperfections introduced by the passage of time. These images are in confrontation or dialogue with digital material, the similigravures or pixels that make up the new medical imaging are clearly visible
Corpus
This new work by Catherine Poncin is linked to the archives of the University Medical Center Nijmegen (Netherlands) the UMC St Radboud.
She looked at images "banal" and images within a technologically advanced fragments, details, angles of view. As described by Paul Ardenne, "Poncin, from a found image, reorganized, crop, reclassifies it in a way which is the reduction to an aspect, a detail, or to carefully go through the 'expansion of a selected point of the image. " Once the selected fragments, it reconstructs vertical banded successive careful that the combination of images provides an expressive power to the whole. The height of the photographs is the same for all, but their length is determined by the sequence of fragments. Thus, such prior perspective on the body is not necessarily negated by the next, but retains all its value, which is visually extended by its neighbor, even extending, remaining at the heart of the work.
Coproducer : UMC St Radboud - Pays-Bas
Released : January, 22nd 2009
Collection : Hors Collection
English/French
ISBN 13 : 978-2-35046-156-4
Format : 305 x 240
48 pages
Hardcover
11 color photos
25 €
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