'Visages' February 21 - April 1 2007.
« In accessing the visage, there is certainly as well an access to the idea of god. »
Emmanuel Lévinas, ‘Le Visage’ Ethic and Infinity.
The origins of the portrait can be traced in the primitive masks. These masks were believed to literally ‘bring’ the traits of the spirits to the living, hoping to facilitate the fascinated spectator’s own passage into the beyond. The blank surface of the canvas also starts as a ‘blank mask’, and will possibly in due time take the appearance of a portrait more or less individualized. This operation will enable the interiority of the visage to hopefully come through. The exhibition ‘Visages’ explores the symbolic space emerging between the fascination of the mask and the appearance of an interiorized visage.
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