Lucciole, a duo show with works by Edith Bories (F, °1984) and Liesbet Grupping (B, °1984), presents a poetic investigation into the unpredictable nature and precarious visibility of photographic images. Focusing on the ephemeral or accidental traces that are inscribed upon light-sensitive materials, both artists engage with the vicissitudes of photochemical processes to reveal phenomena that otherwise remain obscured. Working against the apparatus or embracing the technical disruptions it engenders, Bories and Grupping elaborate an aesthetic of the incident that proves photography is a dynamic force of nature which can never be fully controlled.
_________excerpt from the exhibition text by Dominique Somers
May 1 until June 14 2025
at violet, Antwerp (B)