Lisa Sartorio's 'En rémanence' at Galerie Binome explores memory and image manipulation

Lisa Sartorio's exhibition 'En rémanence' at Galerie Binome in Paris runs until November 28, 2021, marking a pivotal shift in her artistic practice. The show features recent series where Sartorio, trained in sculpture, challenges photographic flatness by recycling documentary images sourced online. Through delicate manipulations like scratching, peeling, and crumbling prints on fibrous Awagami Murakumo kozo paper, she aims to counteract screen-induced forgetfulness and reactivate erased narratives. In the series 'Ici ou ailleurs', she addresses war conflicts and ruins, transforming stereotypes into sensitive visual forms. For 'Légendes', she erases images from World War II books, preserving only captions and encapsulating gesture traces in glass bulbs as archives. 'Les Mutantes' portrays women attacked with acid, with floral elements woven into damaged portraits to sublimate ruined faces. 'Angle Mort' engages sculptural approaches, using tree branches to shape prints of forests linked to historical atrocities like death camp transports, creating small monuments to sacrificed beings. Sartorio's work interrogates the static nature of images, seeking depth and soul through material interventions that bridge destruction and persistence.