Catalogue - Eux

Scattered throughout the catalog for the exhibition Echos – Graphies, Eux series serves as a “silent statement.” Eight images that anyone can own and make their own by purchasing the catalog. The inclusion of the images among the texts and reproductions of artworks tends to demystify the image. Their sequence plays on repetition. Each black-and-white image—a photograph of a television screen in which the grid is visible—depicts a person seen from behind.

“The photographic image is woven into a narrative and rhetorical process to form a cohesive whole. It is a photogram, an entity.”* In *Eux*, photography captures and freezes a movement; it reveals nothing about the action taking place, other than that a person is turning around. But its repetition helps to sketch out a narrative. Each individual appears vulnerable; we cannot see their gaze, and they have no identity. The image thus functions as a process of disappearance rather than appearance. In this regard, it is interesting to note that Christophe Pichon drew these images from a collection of films dealing with the disappearance of women.

Alexandra Gillet

La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes

Eux #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25
édition photographique in catalogue « Echos - Graphies », Rennes
La Criée centre d’art contemporain, 2001, 17,2 x 22 cm