Vernissage November 13, 2012 at 8PM
Exhibition Until February 8 , 2013

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Since its emergence in the 19th century, photography has continuously revealed its multiple characteristics. In this exhibition, one of its specific traits is highlighted: its reproducibility. Like engraving, photography reproduces itself, multiplies, and spreads. Sharing the democratic aspirations of the society in which it was born, it is increasingly practiced and used across ever more varied contexts.

Today, most of the images that surround us come from this medium of expression. Like a wave that continuously forms, reaches its peak, falls, and resumes its motion, photography establishes and reestablishes its own rhythm through its passage in history, and especially within the history we call art. As Gisèle Freund emphasizes in her book Photography and Society, “photography produces its own laws and does not depend on the opinions of art critics; its laws will be the only valid measure of its future values.”¹

With this observation in mind, and considering the overabundance of images that populate our daily lives, the exhibition presented here plays on the tension that can exist between the concepts of mass, group, and individuality. Through another concept linked to photography—namely, the notion of the series—this event seeks to highlight the uninterrupted and growing flow generated by this medium while simultaneously emphasizing the originality of each author.