ERICA BAUM – NAKED EYE
2012-12-24The exhibition will include new and recent examples from the artist’s acclaimed Naked Eye series.
In this body of work, begun in 2008, the artist photographs the fanned pages of dime-store novels, celebrity biographies, and popular non-fiction books. Her strategic cropping and framing of their illustrations, glimpsed between fragments of text and the turquoise, marigold and vermillion edges of their pulpy pages, evoke new narratives born of each viewer’s own free associations. While Baum’s compositions range from the lushly figurative to more dramatically spliced geometric abstractions, all of the works share a sense of dark romance and a voyeuristic appeal. Featuring a cast of characters that includes political figures, musicians, and stars of 1970s film noir, these flattened images of reimagined stories are created without darkroom or digital alterations.
Exhibition runs through till January 11th, 2013
Jancou
63, rue des Bains
Geneva 1205
Switzerland
