OPENING: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 , 7PM
At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape
Photographs and Video by Marina Ballo Charmet
Curated by Jean-François Chevrier
The work of photographer and artist Marina Ballo Charmet, whose formal training is as a psychoanalyst, is centered on what she describes as "inattentive, unintentional observation, irrational and without direction". This retrospective exhibition, curated by critic and writer Jean-Francois Chevrier, presents a selection of photographic and video works produced since 1995 that investigate a variety of subjects ranging from the ordinary and the mundane in the urban landscape to the human figure. Ballo Charmet's work constitutes less an attempt to provide a pictorial rendition of these subjects than an endeavour to evoke the "unperceived" in our daily experiences. Her photographs of the urban landscape concentrate on shreds of the city: details of sidewalks, the upper levels of buildings that pulse in and out of the margins of our field of view; her exploration of the human figure concentrate on specific areas of the body, such as that between the breast and the mouth (the first field of view a baby becomes familiar with). The images featured in her Parks series - an ongoing project that has taken her to public parks in Milan, London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Palermo and New York - are framed from a viewpoint close to the ground, revealing each park as its own universe. Ballo Charmet's work is less an exercise in representation of her chosen subjects - whether they be details of cities, urban landscapes, portions of the human figure or parkscapes - than an investigation of how we perceive them.
At 7.15pm the exhibition's curator, Jean-François Chevrier, will give a brief introduction to the exhibition and contextualization of Marina Ballo Charmet's work.
Exhibition dates: Nov 19, 2009 - Jan 9, 2010
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm
UPCOMING BOOKLAUNCH
SUPPORT STRUCTURES
Edited by Céline Condorelli
Thursday, December 3, 7pm
Support Structures is a manual for what bears, sustains, props, and holds up. It is a manual for those things that encourage, give comfort, approval, and solace; that care for and provide consolation and the necessities of life. It is a manual for that which assists corroborates, advocates, articulates, substantiates, champions, and endorses; for what stands behind, underpins, frames, presents, maintains, and strengthens. Support Structures is a manual for those things that give, in short, support. While the work of supporting might traditionally appear as subsequent, unessential, and lacking value in itself, this manual is an attempt to restore attention to one of the neglected, yet crucial modes through which we apprehend and shape the world.
UPCOMING BOOKLAUNCH
AGENDA
Julien De Smedt Architects
Thursday, December 10, 7pm
AGENDA is an architecture book that occupies the territory between a monograph, a diary, and a collection of essays, interviews, and conversations. At its most harmless AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent.
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