Opera aperta
http://www.julienmenand.com/Opera-aperta
Opera aperta genesis arises from a simple observation, to develop and enrich whithin the search for an original photographic form.
One of the first convictions that appeared, along the path of my artistic identity construction, was the desire to find a way to bring the audience and contemporary photography closer together that they can encounter each other other. I had this idea while visiting a photographic exhibition of very large prints mounted under plexiglass, The light in the room was very bright due to large windows, making the contemplation of the photographs difficult. The Plexiglass reflected then the entire showroom in images in a superimposition with images of church interiors represented in the photographs ... A week later I visited an exhibition of black mirrors used by the painters in the 17th century. I then thought that the inconvenience of the reflecting surface render from diassecs could offer a way to create a passage between the viewer and the work.
To facilitate a projective-type meeting with the image, I considered a visual system using reflection or gleam as a means to materialize a space for reflection directly rooted in the work. Opera # 1 is hung in a dark space. The choice of format, similar to a human scale, invites the viewer to physically take place in a shaft of light falling on the ground at 1.50 m in front of the picture, while showing his own reflection in the image. This visual effect allows me to put the viewer in a protagonist position, playing the role of an observer, as a a way to put him in front of a situation that will give him the opportunity to raise questions about its relation to the work. As explained by Roger Dutilleul, "the key is that the picture look at you. The viewer must not look at it but must content oneself to see, that is to say, to cross their eyes, to suspect the thought or emotion deep and intimate of the artist. Two living beings who communicate as best one can"
Within these mirror-images I try to deal with the relation audience can have with a photograph as an artwork, I use the thread of these low-key images to treat some inter-personal relations’ aspect. The young woman alone, is a representation of Eve (whoever places his/her reflection to dialogue with her in the image, she is here to represent a fantasy for the audience). In a second image, my auto-portrait deals with the fragility of communicating and sharing emotion between the artist and its audience. Opera #3 tends to picture the figure of implicit relations between a young woman in her adult turns and her father. I use then the presence of the audience’s reflection in the image as an alien element reinforcing the existent figures.
I am now working on three more images: The figure of an young single father and two images on the collapsing of normative gender perceptions based on the Freudian concept of the «uncanny».
Opera aperta project is planned as a photographic-installation, including 6 pictures 110 x 140 cm mounted under plexiglass with a well of light for each ones. the images are captured on 4x5 inch E6 film.
Opera aperta genesis arises from a simple observation, to develop and enrich whithin the search for an original photographic form.
One of the first convictions that appeared, along the path of my artistic identity construction, was the desire to find a way to bring the audience and contemporary photography closer together that they can encounter each other other. I had this idea while visiting a photographic exhibition of very large prints mounted under plexiglass, The light in the room was very bright due to large windows, making the contemplation of the photographs difficult. The Plexiglass reflected then the entire showroom in images in a superimposition with images of church interiors represented in the photographs ... A week later I visited an exhibition of black mirrors used by the painters in the 17th century. I then thought that the inconvenience of the reflecting surface render from diassecs could offer a way to create a passage between the viewer and the work.
To facilitate a projective-type meeting with the image, I considered a visual system using reflection or gleam as a means to materialize a space for reflection directly rooted in the work. Opera # 1 is hung in a dark space. The choice of format, similar to a human scale, invites the viewer to physically take place in a shaft of light falling on the ground at 1.50 m in front of the picture, while showing his own reflection in the image. This visual effect allows me to put the viewer in a protagonist position, playing the role of an observer, as a a way to put him in front of a situation that will give him the opportunity to raise questions about its relation to the work. As explained by Roger Dutilleul, "the key is that the picture look at you. The viewer must not look at it but must content oneself to see, that is to say, to cross their eyes, to suspect the thought or emotion deep and intimate of the artist. Two living beings who communicate as best one can"
Within these mirror-images I try to deal with the relation audience can have with a photograph as an artwork, I use the thread of these low-key images to treat some inter-personal relations’ aspect. The young woman alone, is a representation of Eve (whoever places his/her reflection to dialogue with her in the image, she is here to represent a fantasy for the audience). In a second image, my auto-portrait deals with the fragility of communicating and sharing emotion between the artist and its audience. Opera #3 tends to picture the figure of implicit relations between a young woman in her adult turns and her father. I use then the presence of the audience’s reflection in the image as an alien element reinforcing the existent figures.
I am now working on three more images: The figure of an young single father and two images on the collapsing of normative gender perceptions based on the Freudian concept of the «uncanny».
Opera aperta project is planned as a photographic-installation, including 6 pictures 110 x 140 cm mounted under plexiglass with a well of light for each ones. the images are captured on 4x5 inch E6 film.
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