Photography was invented in 1839 and invited itself into the arts to upset relations. Originally qualified as an “industrial art”, this duplication process of reality modified the representation of space, time, memory, and questioned painters and writers, in a mixture of rejection and fascination.
Complex and fruitful relationships appeared at the intersection of photography and literature. The exhibition at Jan Michaslki Foundation, entitled Photoliterature, explores this variety of interactions between image and text, through a selection of works in French language. Dialogs between photographers, writers mix themselves with illustrated texts, anonymous photographs, and books without illustrations where photography is a theme.
Travelogues, fiction, poetry, and autobiography: a journey through the ages and aesthetic currents, within the friction, hybridization and evolution of editorial media. A way to report about the “photo literature” phenomena, since the invention of Modernity – that photography helped to create up to the new digital potentials.
Photoliterature
October 14 to December 30, 2016
Jan Michalski Foundation
1147 Montricher
Swiss
