Daniel Clauzier (negative) Paul Allain (positive)
2018
Exif

Albumen print
25 x 18.5 cm
 
Private collection of Willem Van Haecht
Daniel Clauzier (1978-)
 
Relics
Albumen print from a digital negative,
Print by Paul Allain, Paris,
2018
25 x 18,5 cm
collection of the artist

 
Exif
Albumen print from a digital negative,
Print by Paul Allain, Paris,
Translation thanks to Vladimir Agrigoroaei
2018
25 x 18,5 cm collection of the artist
 
« Relics » and « Exif » were made in 2018 for a personal exhibition at the Médiathèque François Mitterrand in Poitiers, France. I was invited to show work in dialogue with the original 19th and early 20th-century photographs in the library's extensive colelction (that I knew well since having curated « Images Révélées », a show on historical local photography at the Musée Sainte-Croix four years prior). Several of those pictures belonged to the very old historical society, and document various early artefacts.
 
Both prints are actual albumen prints, made for me by Paul Allain in Paris. They were made using a digital image I shot of fake “medieval” fragments I had hand made in sheet metal. “Relics” was inspired by a remark from the artist David McDermott that the history of photography is a list of abandoned processes. The near-extinct mythical brands have become themselves something of the past.
 
“Exif” is more subtle in that the text needs to be observed. The “merovingian” plaque fragment displays a latin text that is a humorous translation of the digital information from the original shot. The idea of an artwork (even ancient) whose sole purpose is it's own photographic reproduction pleases me a lot, because it sums up a personal belief I have of the gigantic change in the function and production of art after the invention of photography
 
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