Un très bel ouvrage sur la survivance de l’image, complètement à part dans l'œuvre du photographe.
Dans le très bel ouvrage Kintsugi, Joan Fontcuberta réunit dans un ensemble poétique et conceptuel d'images fantasmatiques qui évoquent le passage du temps, l'enregistrement de l'histoire et la substance de la photographie. Le photographe fouille dans les collections des musées et leurs archives pour trouver des documents photographiques qui se sont détériorés avec le temps et qui, paradoxalement, ont "perdu leur mémoire". Ces images sont sauvées par un procédé qui rappelle la technique zen du Kintsugi, ou un morceau de poterie cassé n'est pas jeté, mais réparé, un fil d'or marquant la ligne de fracture. L'accent mis sur les cicatrices est ici une forme de résilience.
Connu pour un travail qui interroge la valeur de l'image à travers le photomontage, ou la falsification de documents, il aborde ici une réflexion sur la survivance de la photographie. Publié par RM, ce très beau livre au format souple et fermé par une reliure japonaise est un peu à part formellement dans le travail du photographe.
| Publication date: | 2021 |
| Number of pages: | 92 pages |
| Weight: | 500 g. |
| Dimensions: | 22,5 × 30 cm |
| Couverture: | Softcover |
| Language: | English |
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A beautiful publication on the survival of the image, very much apart from the rest of the photographer’s works and books.
In the beautiful and quite abstract book Kintsugi, Joan Fontcuberta brings together a poetic and conceptual set of fantastical images that evoke the passage of time, the recording of history and the very substance of photography. The photographer searches museum collections and their archives to find photographic documents which have deteriorated over time and which, paradoxically, have "lost their memory". These images are saved by a process reminiscent of the Zen technique of Kintsugi, where a broken piece of pottery is not thrown away, but repaired, a gold thread marking the line of fracture. The focus on scars is here a form of resilience.
Known for a practice that questions the value of the image through photomontage, or the falsification of documents, he envisions here a reflection on the survival of photography. Published by RM, this very beautiful book in a softcover format, closed by a Japanese binding, constitutes formally a step apart in the photographer’s practice.
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