The exhibition brings together images from various bodies of work the artist has been working on since the early 1990s. Selected among these artworks, the images are arranged and reactivated in a specific way to create a new situation: the exhibition. The chosen framework is the theatrical model. "A situation is dependent on the interplay of elements." As this statement illustrates, Suzanne Lafont's photographic practice has developed through associations. The artwork (or the exhibition, or the book) is an arrangement of fragmented elements, that can be temporary: photographic images in variable media and formats, often accompanied by a word or group of words.
The arbitrary juxtaposition of elements and the nature of the assembled objects recall post-Cubist collages or papiers collés. Grouped together under the heading Accessories Counter, ordinary things - work gloves, food cans, cooking utensils, chairs - camp out on a stage where they take on a gestural function and express intention over the general situation. Hence the exhibition's title, How Things Think.
This active community of objects confers onto images the ability to talk. A tilting head, a recalcitrant deck chair, a vinyl disk on a revolving turntable, colored-light fields with the names of absent actors as subtitles all become verbal gestures. It's as though the viewer were assisting a show of language without words. [Excerpt from the press release]