Aurora Király

Anca Poterașu Gallery is delighted to present for the first time at OFFSCREEN Paris a solo presentation featuring new works by Aurora Király.

For its 4th edition, OFFSCREEN took place from October 21 to 26 at the newly chosen venue La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, featuring avant-garde, historical, and contemporary artists working with experimental, image-based practices.

In her new presentation, Aurora Király reflects on photography as both a personal and material process.

“Király draws from recent, everyday photographic “notes”, as well as intimate self-portraits from the 1990s, which she reframes and recontextualizes with scraps of cardboard and hand-made drawings, transforming the original images into artefacts that unfold in space.These three-dimensional objects also contain a reflection on the photographic medium itself: They evoke the apparatus (the camera body) and its capacity of taking us through layers of time, into the meanders of our memory.

The exhibition will also display a human-scale Viewfinder: a translucent sculpture that allows the interplay of the image and the surrounding light, while reminiscent of the large-format cameras of the photographic pioneers. A series of photograms inspired from the same stock of images and acrylic material will complete this cohesive cycle of works. With those photograms, Király goes back to the two-dimensional paper and to the fragility of the seminal technique of “drawing with light” – while also exploring the full potential of her images, up to the limits of abstraction, and opening new spaces for thought.” (Text by Sonia Voss)

OFFSCREEN
La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière
Access through Marie Curie Garden
47, Bd de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris