MUJESIRA ELEZOVIC
Sousilence, an exhibition by Mujesira Elezovic, a graduate of the Martinique Regional Institute of Visual Arts (IRAVM), offers us two photographic approaches to Fort-de-France: Evanescence (2000/2007) and Fonds Noirs (2005/2006).
Five years separate these two photographic series.
Evanescence seeks to make visible the very instant of effacement.
There was the time the pictures were taken followed by the working of time itself.
The superimposition of photographic images aims at creating a new space in which the bodies of the buildings and those of the passers-by converge. But the images captured on Polaroid, images without negative, degenerate rapidly. The outline of the bodies fades and disappears. These shots in perpetual mutation, always in transformation bear the physical signature of Time and show the ineluctable degradation of the photograph under the combined assault of light and time. The photograph then becomes a space of invention where, in an apparent contradiction, the body photographed is both captured and fixed, but abolished and erased.
The Fonds Noirs are stills. They give away none of their mystery: why are these faces so uptight? The origin of the series Fonds Noirs, there is a typical street scene taken on the fly, captured on film at high noon, the hour when faces pucker in the dazzling light but these images are re-worked using digital techniques to darken the backgrounds and isolate certain faces, making their expressions theatrical, revealing a reality which our eyes would not normally see. The photo is not longer a mirror or a tracing of reality, not the strict reproduction of a pre-existing original but the updating of a virtual reality revealed at the end of a photographic process. In practice Mujesira Elezovic sets herself apart from the stage set photography while seeking to desecrate the classical taking of pictures, with the viewfinder away from her eye and sometimes from her body.
Her pictures were noticed at the Photo Imagen 2007 in the Dominican Republic and at the Printemps de septembre 2007, and explore new ground in photography, inventing new visibilities and seeking to establish new rapports between the photo and the visible.
Dominique Brebion
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