Metro 5 Gallery past Flashpoint

'A la recherche du temp perdu'

The images in this exhibition are staged, like a mise-en-scene.
They are not just polaroids of everyday life. They are different worlds that are so much a part of our past yet created in our present. Contrary to today’s digital era that inundates us with easily accessible photography, these images are meticulously stage-managed, and the characters are virtually performed by actors, not just posed by photographic models.

These symbolic images become the photoartist’s conceptual explanations of a captured moment in the past still so potent & influential in our present time.

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FLASHPOINT	September 17th - October 5th
	'A la recherche du temp perdu' The images in this exhibition are staged, like a mise-en-scene. They are not just polaroids of everyday life. They are different worlds that are so much a part of our past yet created in our present. Contrary to today’s digital era that inundates us with easily accessible photography, these images are meticulously stage-managed, and the characters are virtually performed by actors, not just posed by photographic models. These symbolic images become the photoartist’s conceptual explanations of a captured moment in the past still so potent & influential in our present time.
	The female physique & psyche behind & in front of the camera is certainly manifest throughout Flashpoint – there is a kind of eerie narrative - the sense of not knowing - like a take of a film you cannot fully comprehend or visually decypher. These photographs are like stills of a film directed by no one, yet simultaneously designed with particular attention to detail: a carefully articulated master plan of fixed moments that translates into a visually rich & disturbingly threatening narrative. We are drawn into the scene without knowing the plot – yet we are intrigued enough to discover what took place before & what may happen next....