Multivision: Three Solo Shows on Multiplicity at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire

Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Brussels presents 'Multivision', a set of three solo exhibitions by Marin Kasimir, Claire Lesteven, and Catherine Poncin, running from February 12 to March 1, 2003. Rather than a group show, each artist explores the multiplicity of viewpoints through distinct photographic practices spanning pinhole, digital, photomontage, and panoramic techniques. All three focus on urban territory. Claire Lesteven, a French artist based in New York, is highlighted as the revelation of the event: she adapts the ancient pinhole technique to panoramic views using a cylindrical camera with four equidistant apertures, sometimes transforming large rooftop cisterns into camera obscuras to produce monumental, spatio-temporal images of Brooklyn. Marin Kasimir creates multivisual landscapes with elaborate detail and staging. Catherine Poncin assembles quadruple layers of found or archived images to convey impressions of Bobigny, but her work is critiqued as overly artificial, raising questions about commissioned photography by local authorities.