a ppr oc he: Art Fair

We are thrilled to announce that we will be participating in the 9th edition of a ppr oc he alongside Pietro Bologna. This Parisian salon is curated by Emilia Genuardi and is dedicated to artists who experiment with the image.

Faithful to its intimate format and unique curatorial approach, the salon continues to showcase artists represented by galleries that push the boundaries of the photographic medium. This new edition confirms how experimentation with the image is a fertile and essential field of contemporary creation. Fourteen solo shows will be presented, featuring artists from diverse backgrounds represented by French and international galleries.

By drawing on sensitive, material, and conceptual approaches, the artists brought together in this edition explore photography as a space of tension: between appearance and disappearance, memory and fiction, surface and depth.

For the a ppr oc he, Pietro Bologna presents Elegía (Elegy), a unique series based on a work created in 2018 called Mio Malgrado. This series consists of plates on which Pietro Bologna has created a limited edition of gum or lithogravure prints using relatively poor resources (a photocopy, a little shellac and gum arabic).

The fragility of the plates, due to their size, results in creases, tears, holes and deletions, all of which bear witness to their testing. The missing parts draw his attention to their material. The plates, the matrices (from the Latin matrix: "mother; womb") are the imprint of time. They represent as yet unexpressed potential, the image "outside oneself".

Merleau-Ponty teaches us that, in experience, it's not sight, touch and hearing that are primary, but their background: the invisible, the untouchable, the inaudible. After all, photography is concerned with light before it is concerned with representation, meaning or narrative. Perhaps we need to free ourselves from meaning. At a time when machines dominate, Pietro Bologna returns to matter.

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