Back-View Figure Study in a Dark Gallery Installation

5 October 2017 · Paris

A backlit framed photograph glows against a darkened gallery wall — a figure from behind, long hair falling across bare skin, lit with the quiet precision of a light box. The installation isolates the work from everything else in the room; darkness does the framing that a white wall usually handles. A wall label sits to the right, small and unread from this distance, a reminder that art in a museum always carries two lives: the image itself and the institution explaining it.