How to capture the thickness of time and retain it in an image?
Laurent Goldring, normalien, philosopher and artist present in the collections of the Center Pompidou, has tried various techniques.
That of chronophotography dear to Marey and Muybridge.
He filmed dance performances, breaking down a movement into multiple fragments.
Then he tried to catch time head-on, and now with his bare hands.
The Galerie Maubert, in the Marais, in Paris, presents these latest works.
Laurent Goldring puts his hands in the viewfinder of his camera.
In action or in meditation.
Pictures?
No, that would be too simple.
Goldring enjoys paradoxes.
His pictures may well be figurative, we never fully grasp them.
They have a particular grain.
These are "videostyles", fixed images that come from a film.
His challenge?
Create views that contain the richness induced by the development of the filmed action.
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