L'apparition des images at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris

The exhibition 'L'apparition des images' at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard in Paris (January 29 – March 9, 2013) brings together eleven artists who explore analog photographic processes in response to digital proliferation. Curated by Audrey Illouz, the show highlights techniques such as pinhole, photogravure, photogram, and heliogravure. Artists reenact historical methods while embracing accident and material unpredictability. Meris Angioletti develops involuntarily veiled films, reflecting on fresco erosion. Eric Baudelaire creates Anabasis X-Rayograms from airport security X-rays. Juliana Borinski spends 600 hours exposing a slide onto a copper plate. Dominique Blais reactivates four pinhole cameras recording candlelight. Sébastien Rémy transcode images from Internet to heliogravure via sound. Blanca Casa Brullet's Table Sensible combines shadow and light. Jacob Kassay uses electro-galvanization to fix silver particles on canvas. Joseph Dadoune covers his canvas with tar, referencing Nicéphore Niépce. Diogo Pimentão fixes graphite particles by evaporation. The exhibition creates dialogues between photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, film, and sculpture.