
Aller et retour dans la chambre blanche
- Publisher
- Filigranes Éditions / Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 978-2-35046-399-5
- Specifications
- Hardcover
210 × 260 mm
72 pages
54 duotone photographs
French
This volume gathers some fifty pictures, several of them unpublished, chosen by the artist's own hand and drawn from La Disparition des lucioles, published in 1982, together with others, iconic or lesser known, that share the same sense of displacement. This relation to movement at work in the pictures is as much a matter of Denis Roche's physical movement between here — the place where he presses the shutter — and elsewhere, where he is not or no longer, as of the handling of his camera, which he does not hesitate to turn around or to divert from its usual framing and its signifying quality. That device, recurrent in his work, can be read as an extension and an incarnation of the artist, even as a questioning of the photographic act; and beyond the physical, the movement also appears in time, between the alignment or the spacing of the frames, in the distance between the time lived and the time represented, and in the transfer from the eye of the maker at a given moment to that of a viewer at any other.