Paris Photo | Nov. 10 - Nov. 13 2022

“Xavier Dumoulin with his series Incandescences, deals with the subject of light pollution affecting our territories.

Xavier takes us to natural landscapes that we have always known and that seem unchanging. If you look at it closely, these fragments of space are only part of a great whole in which each element influences the others, an immense mechanism in which each cog has its precise place.

Metamorphosed by artificial lighting, these urban territories nestled in the immense nature evoke lava flows. These captivating images show us a light pollution in which the night is consumed and with it the stars. Our perception of the cosmos is waning and the feeling of osmosis with the universal space is increasingly rare. A priceless loss of a certain poetic relationship with the world.

Within this fiery vehicle, we are blind to the destruction it engenders, even if we perceive tenuous messages from the outside that alert us to the urgency and imminent catastrophe. Fire is everywhere: in the forests, in the climate, in the oceans, in our food, in our relationship with others... Fanned by money. Man seems to set fire to everything he touches, and the earth is set on fire where he settles. These two incandescences, electrical and symbolic, raise the fundamental question of the growing dichotomy between Man and his environment. The gap has widened over time, perhaps because of the original need to fight against nature for survival, until it becomes a separation that would see Man as a superior entity, definitely apart. This collective immolation will only cease when we become aware of our belonging to the Whole and when our ideology changes radically, towards more respect and humility.” - Press Release ©

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Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990). Marker Cones, 1982. Chromogenic print, 21 3/4 × 26 in. (55.3 × 66 cm). Courtesy of the Estate of Jimmy DeSana. © Estate of Jimmy DeSana

The Brooklyn Museum | Nov. 11 2022 - April 16 2023

“Jimmy DeSana: Submission is the first museum survey of work by a major yet overlooked figure in the histories of photography, LGBTQ artists, and New York City. Among his many significant contributions, Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990) reintroduced the body and sexuality into the conceptual photographic practices of the late 1960s and early 1970s, helping to elevate the medium within the contemporary art world. The exhibition traces the artist’s brief but prolific career through more than two hundred works on display (some for the first time), created during a time of profound cultural and political transformation in the United States. From his early days photographing suburban landscapes in Atlanta, Georgia, to his time as a key figure in the New York art and music scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, DeSana conveyed the radical spirit of his era and a pointed, ironic critique of the American Dream and its images. Jimmy DeSana: Submission opens November 11, 2022, and is organized by Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum.

The exhibition also contains selections from Submission (1980), DeSana’s book of BDSM-related photographs that play with liberation and conformity, and ideological power alongside the myths of postwar capitalism. This section also includes related photographs from a collaboration with writer and sex worker Terence Sellers (American, 1952–2016) that were intended for her first book, The Correct Sadist (1983). Most of these photographs have not been previously displayed or published.” - Press Release ©

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Incandescence, Jimmy DeSana