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Inhabiting concealment
Le corps comme écran 

Inhabiting concealment
Le corps comme écran 

In this series, Isabelle Grosse engaged with visitors at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, establishing a temporary photographic studio within the institution itself. She invited participants to pose while adopting gestures or postures that created a sense of concealment whether through the positioning of limbs, the turning away of the face, or the use of the body's mass to create zones of shadow and occlusion. In this protocol, the body itself becomes an ambiguous site simultaneously the subject being captured and the material frame that obscures, redirects, or fragments the gaze. The gesture points to the paradox of visibility: participants are both exposed to the camera and shielded by their own corporeal presence, suggesting that the body can serve as both a threshold of revelation and a barrier to complete disclosure.

This photographic investigation subsequently generated a corpus of drawings and a slide projection. The projection was integrated into the artist's solo exhibition Reversible at the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Castres, France.

In this series, Isabelle Grosse engaged with visitors at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, establishing a temporary photographic studio within the institution itself. She invited participants to pose while adopting gestures or postures that created a sense of concealment whether through the positioning of limbs, the turning away of the face, or the use of the body's mass to create zones of shadow and occlusion. In this protocol, the body itself becomes an ambiguous site simultaneously the subject being captured and the material frame that obscures, redirects, or fragments the gaze. The gesture points to the paradox of visibility: participants are both exposed to the camera and shielded by their own corporeal presence, suggesting that the body can serve as both a threshold of revelation and a barrier to complete disclosure.

This photographic investigation subsequently generated a corpus of drawings and a slide projection. The projection was integrated into the artist's solo exhibition Reversible at the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Castres, France.

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