NYAB Event - Chad Kleitsch "Works on Paper"

Chad Kleitsch "Works on Paper"

Baxter Street/ the Camera Club of NY

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In the New York debut of "Works on Paper," photographer Chad Kleitsch selects original documents-– letters, scores, manuscripts, and everyday correspondence-– and exposes them under the light of the scanner, creating a new portrait of the document, that reveals both sides of the page within one. Kleitsch uses a scanner as a camera in a practice termed “scanography”, where the light of the scanner exposes the paper or object, similar to the way in which photographers worked from paper negatives in the last century. The items selected are sometimes gifted to the artist, found, or carefully chosen from vaults of archives in the New York Public Library. Like a photograph, these prints document a moment in time, and an object or text that has moved through time. While personal writings, notes, and letters by Alfred Steiglitz, John Cage, Emily Dickinson, Diane Arbus, or John Ashbery invite open ended narratives and glimpses into everyday histories, it is the materiality and wear witnessed on these pages – the marks, stains, folds, and subtle tears – that resonate with a certain poetry. This riddled topography acts as a handprint or map, a witness to the object’s movement over time and space, from hand-to-hand. The resulting works on paper are not so much a conservation record, mirror, or still life of something past, but a translation or portrait to be read in the present.

In conjunction with the debut of this series, photographer and writer Tim Davis will present original new writing loosely inspired by the work on view, the palimpsest of paper, photography, and random heaps of language.

Media

• Photography
• Prints

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