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Liz Deschenes Exhibition: Exploring Photography, Perception, and Architectural Space

Delve into Deschenes' innovative approach to image-making through unique, light-sensitive works challenging traditional viewing.

This dedicated exhibition presents the profound photographic work of artist Liz Deschenes. Visitors can engage with her photograms, created without a camera by exposing photosensitive paper to ambient light. The display critically examines photography's basic elements, visual perception, and its dynamic relationship with both architecture and curatorial presentation strategies. Discover her new series, "Stereograph 1-16," exploring optical manipulation.

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Exhibition summary

This exhibition showcases Liz Deschenes' photographic work, focusing on photograms created without a camera by exposing photosensitive paper to ambient light. The display explores photography's fundamental components, perception, and its relationship with architecture and display strategies.

Curatorial context

Liz Deschenes' artistic practice delves into the very conditions and components of photography, examining perception and its interplay with other media, particularly architecture. Her works, often created as photograms without a camera, delve into the self-referential nature of the medium by highlighting its inherent processes and limitations. For this exhibition, Deschenes produced a new series of works titled 'Stereograph 1-16,' referencing stereoscopy and the manipulation of perception through photographic techniques. The exhibition's design is as integral as the artworks themselves. Deschenes reconfigured the gallery's entrance, creating a choice for visitors to enter either the left or right exhibition space first, framing the initial room as a 'viewfinder.' The elongated photograms are arranged in pairs, forming a fold that alludes to the bellows of a large-format camera, a tool often used for architectural photography. This spatial arrangement and the works themselves, which are in constant chemical flux, challenge the notion of a fixed, objective representation of reality, inviting viewers to actively engage with the shifting conditions of seeing and photographic representation.

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Secession
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Exhibition schedule
From Dec 7, 2012
Artist line / attribution
Featuring works by Liz Deschenes, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1966, who lives and works in New York.
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