Annabel Aoun Blanco – Coups après Coups
Since the creation of its Photographic Art Section in 1965, the Réattu Museum has never ceased to participate as a museum of fine arts in the recognition of photography as a major art in its own right, at the same level than painting or sculpture. The museum has thus accompanied and welcomed many artists whose plastic research made sense in this place which was the home of a painter from the end of the 18th century, Jacques Réattu, Grand Prix de Rome. A significant part of the collection is thus devoted to these so-called visual artists who use the photographic medium in unusual forms, exploring the mystery of the appearance of the image.
The work of Annabel Aoun Blanco (photographer, videographer and visual artist) thus comes to be inserted between the approach of a “classic” photographer and that of a visual artist making images appear. Indeed, the artist's "tool" is the camera with all its technical characteristics (lens, focusing, focal length, diaphragm, exposure time, lighting) but, in the service as much of the appearance of the image than of its disappearance.
In 2019, the Réattu museum hosted a first exhibition by the artist entitled “Éloigne moi de toi”. In 2022, he presents the continuation of Annabel Aoun Blanco's work with the exhibition "Coups après coups".
The artist's project combines the human figure, matter and gestures. The objective, by hybridizing photography and video and altering the representation, is to make visible a passage between appearance and disappearance of the human figure in a looping dynamic.
The work is based on the Platonic analysis of time: “Time is the mobile image of immobile eternity” where “mobile” refers to video and “immobile” to photography. This sentence and its oxymoron are illustrated in both mediums showing images, series of images, videos and video series which progressively combine over cycles, the spatio-temporal characteristics of photography and video, creating two new mediums: Photo/Video and Video/Photo.
