JACOB KASSAY – F’O’O’T’A’G’E’
2020-06-08It is indeed impossible to focus one’s eyes on the eleven OSB panels varying in size that have been mounted on the walls, their surfaces vibrating so much as if pixelated. If it isn’t our eyes that are squinting, it must be that the image itself is deformed. The photograph of the panels printed directly on its subject – the wood – makes the object tremble. The image is not correctly superimposed on its source; the crossing over of the two produces a defect that renders their relationship tangible.
This ghost-like presence, created by the splitting into two and therefore the disappearance of the integrity of the captured surface, has already been explored by Jacob Kassay, former photography student at the University of Buffalo, through his previous exhibition You at the gallery Art: Concept.
Here the Siamese reiteration of the object within its own edges and the redundancy of the panels in the space produce an extraordinary effect: a phenomenon of exhaustion that doesn’t allow us to recognise the forms or words despite their repetition. In the reign of the compression of images, the choice of this ‘chipboard’ makes perfect sense. A chipboard is a chipboard is a chipboard. The material experiences a feeling of disconnection from the reality of itself.
Opposite – Long Take, 2020
Exhibition runs through to July 25th, 2020
Art : Concept
4, passage Sainte-Avoye
Access: gate at 8, rue Rambuteau
75003 Paris
