Andrew Borowiec “Provence”
Sasha Wolf Gallery
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Andrew Borowiec spent several weeks between 2009 and 2011 in explorations of the hill towns of the Provence region in France. He returned to his family’s home in the Var Département, using a medium-format, 6 x 9 camera to photograph the surrounding villages at night. Borowiec was seeking the lost landscape of his childhood in these images shot at street level using only the light from the lamps lining the streets and alleyways.
With these images, Borowiec takes his viewers by the hand leading them through a search of the quiescent streets of seeming pre-industrial cities-a dreamscape with electric streetlamps acting as guides. These towns exist in a province originally named by the Romans, which became the property of French kings in the 15th century. They do seem like antiquated vestiges with their wooden shutters, ornate, wrought iron gates and window guards, clay tile roofs, winding cobblestone streets, and stone archways. Through Borowiec’s careful retracing of his steps, the villages become knowable, but are still enigmatic. They are places between places. They sit between the urban and rustic, slowly being enveloped in the shadow cast by modernity, just as memory slowly becomes enveloped in forgetfulness.
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from January 14, 2015 to February 22, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-14 from 18:00 to 20:00