Marie-Jeanne Musiol: Black Holes
29 Sep - 10 Nov 2012
Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present a new version of the installation Black Holes. The images of individual latrine pits set in endless alignments at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp embody the vision of a dark energy still vested in these slowly disintegrating and seemingly banal openings . Like cosmic dark holes condensing a formidable force, the latrines manifest as an expression of absolute evil: the reduction of millions to humiliation without redemption, a loss of reference, a dead end.
Black Holes is the most recent body of work undertaken by Marie-Jeanne Musiol over the course of ongoing walks in Auschwitz where she has photographed the approaches to the camp and the trees rooted in human ashes. The artist now interprets these openings in a broader cosmological dimension that is also a focus of her energy photography.
Black Holes was first presented in a curated solo exhibition by Scott McLeod at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto) in 2011. A major essay on Musiol's work by Celina Jeffery was published in Prefix Photo 23.
Black Holes is the most recent body of work undertaken by Marie-Jeanne Musiol over the course of ongoing walks in Auschwitz where she has photographed the approaches to the camp and the trees rooted in human ashes. The artist now interprets these openings in a broader cosmological dimension that is also a focus of her energy photography.
Black Holes was first presented in a curated solo exhibition by Scott McLeod at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto) in 2011. A major essay on Musiol's work by Celina Jeffery was published in Prefix Photo 23.