Suzanne Lafont, New Companion Species, Deux ponts, 2018-2019

Suzanne Lafont, New Companion Species, Deux Ponts, 2018-2019
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper, 160 x 106,7 cm (unframed), 165 x 111,5 cm (framed)
Edition of 3

Courtesy of the artist, Bordeaux Métropole and Erna Hecey Gallery, Luxembourg

Suzanne Lafont New Companion Species is a series of 16 fascinating photographs 160 x 106,7 cm each representing a plant collected, recorded and photographed between 2018-2019 in south-west France. Lafont reworked the chromatism by replacing certain colors by their complements, on a charcoal gray background. This lag of the chromatic spectrum, inverting values warm and cold on a dark background, produces a particular bewitching luminescence. This light dazzles and brings the eye to produce an afterimage, opposing values that are juxtaposed to the observed values, as described by Goethe in his Treatise on Colors. "Dazzling is Night in Broad Daylight", also says Michel Foucault in the History of Madness. This blurring of human vision evokes the disorganization of the vegetal world in our environment in a saturated atmosphere altered by Man, which has become "an unbreathable garden”.

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