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C7497
2019
Lucas LEGLISE
Photography
40 x 80 cm
C7497 is the identification number of a Fuji Provia film used by Lucas Leglise during a tripin Siberia. It is here printed in its totality and at its actual size. The metal mechanism of the camera in which the film was got frozen by the cold, overexposing nine photographs taken outside – next to Lake Baikal, near Irkutsk– but normally showing the only image taken inside the Trans-Siberian train where the camera was protected by the surrounding heat. The cold, slowing down the shutter’s motion, was a gateway for the world to imprint itself on the photograph differently than with representation. “If the train allows us togaze at the landscape going by around us, are we limited to look at the film of the world individually, or is it possible to inhabit a journey?” questions theartist.
Born in 1992 in Chalon-sur-Saône, France
A graduate from the École Supérieure d’Art of Chalon-sur-Saône and from the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Lucas Leglise works and lives in Paris. His first works were thought-out as ready mades: it is still the case now when he exhibits films, slides, or works as they are exhibited or being installed in perfect mise en abyme. He uses the tools offered by photography to question this very medium and the links between reality and its image. Exploring our relationship to pictures, he evokes the possibilities and limits in how we engage with the world. His works have been exhibited inFrance, in China, and in Japan.
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Lucas LEGLISE
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