Lucas Bourgine

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Exhibition on view at Pop Gun from May 19th to 28th 2023

Lucas Bourgine

glasses and bugs I, 

glasses and bugs II,

glasses and bugs III

Dye sublimation print on aluminum
2023
Ed. 3 + 2AP
20 x 25 in


 "Bourgine gets close to the glasses to a point of intrusion. Captured in petrification–so close, you might want to hold your breath. The harsh exposure casts a forensic glow which renders the transparency of the glasses suspicious–evidence of deposition. The conspicuous dispositions openly mask the bodies of unknown death left forgotten in the flutes. The curves of the gold veneer embrace and evaporate, creating their own assembly and formation, in closed eyelids and open stares–staging neglect and witness.

The enigmatic coherence here finds its genealogy in the stereoscopic image. Perceptive disorientation is navigated with temporal manipulation. Bourgine subverts the collapse of two moments by preemptively congealing the doubled simultaneity into one—bringing to light multiples which reflexively question the nature of perception and fabrication. Through combination and reduction, Bourgine crafts a meticulous seriality in the set of three photographs, reenacting the course of events in their intervals of slow accumulation and soft demise.

Meanwhile, this collapse of two moments, so to speak, also puts forth the mystery of each “moment”. Glasses become the metonym of photographs, as the vessel which mediates anteriority and posteriority–at times full, at times empty. Unsettled time. Unsettling times."

Gunner Dongieux

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