Pierre Le Hors “Period Act”
Baxter Street/ the Camera Club of NY
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“Period Act,” a solo exhibition by 2013 CCNY Darkroom Resident Pierre Le Hors, pictures the museum as a space of fragments and fantasy. This exhibition marks the last of four solo exhibitions from the recipients of the 2013 CCNY Darkroom Residency Program.
“Walking through the museum, I pass vitrines of glassware carefully arranged by type, period, and provenance. I see pitchers, decanters, vases, ewers, vials, cups and glasses for all occasions. Reflections multiplying and distorting each other, they are empty containers, themselves encased in glass and stripped of their utility. They are perfect objects, speaking to the conditions of their own display.
‘The Sense of Sight,’ attributed to Juan Dò, formerly known as ‘A Girl with a Mirror’ by Ribera, is an oil painting depicting a seated woman seen in profile. Her left hand holds a mirror, into which she gazes, expressionless. Her right hand is held to the side of her head in an ambiguous gesture. She might be reaching up to fix her hair, or to hold her head in disbelief. Her downcast eyes in the mirror suggest she is looking not at herself but at something lying just off the frame, to the right.
On view are only parts of an incomplete whole. Moving past period rooms, visible storage, and galleries closed for installation, time collapses and the museum becomes a forest of fragments in which I gladly lose myself and find rhythm. Each room lays out its objects like bits of a corpse successively exposed. Because I can never see its entire body, nor hold it in my mind, I fill in the gaps with my own memories and fantasies. Its shape is slowly but constantly changing. Arrangements of pictures and objects provide the setting for this erotic act.” - Pierre Le Hors
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Schedule
from March 19, 2014 to April 12, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-03-19 from 18:00 to 20:00