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persistence of
reflections of
renamed 'cos I liked BITH*'s description better than my original title
A stencil parody of Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory (1931) that appeared on a concrete salb behind the Peace Center at Harvard and Silver, SE, Albuquerque, Dec. 9, 2008.
The Nikkorex Auto 35 was a consumer level leaf shutter SLR offered by Nikon in the early 60s. It was not particularly successful, though it did offer an innovative (for the time) automatic aperture feature.
In appearance it was very similar to the Pentina, but that’s about all they have in common. I enjoy restoring “parts” cameras, but some are more of a challenge than others. This one proved to be a real hair puller, and even by the time I got to 5 bodies I had managed no success, mostly due to the devilishly frustrating linkage between the body, mirror return, shutter, and meter/aperture interface.
The persistence is not so much about the tree or the rock behind, but more about my persistence. I took 14 exposures before I caught the light on the branches and the mountain behind just right. It is dark, but it isn't underexposed, damn it.
If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.
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exhibition opening
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
11 May, 2023
ON VIEW UNTIL 1 JUNE, 2023
The exhibition 'Weightlessness' gathers a series of experimental, photographic and cinematographic works by Luce Moreau, realized with the help of an astronomical tripod, whose equatorial mount proposes a weightless point of view on the terrestrial landscapes, day and night. Relationships are created between the spectator, the technological tools, and the celestial objects filmed, whether they are the stars, the Sun or our own planet, dragging us along in its movement.
The eye of the camera protects itself from the overflow of sunlight in 'Pulsar', provoking the analogical retinal persistence of the 'Holes' landscapes; 'Volta' takes us on a nocturnal journey in weightlessness and we understand, through the jerks of the mechanical painting 'Paysage Provençal', that we sometimes have to invert the points of view in order to feel the cosmic and technological forces at work in our daily life.
Born in 1982 in Paris, France, LUCE MOREAU is a photographer and artist based in Marseille. She is the co-founder of OTTO-Prod, a structure dedicated to art production, artist-in-residence and exhibition programme between France and Slovenia, since 2006.
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