Black Maria, solo show at Michel Rein.
"The Black Maria" is to cinema what the camera obscura is to photography. A term previously used for police vans, Thomas Edison’s employees applied it to this other black box on wheels, the first studio in the history of cinema. An enclosed, abstract space, open to the sky of possibilities, the Black Maria permits dreams and even exists solely to produce them. From this point on, the simulacrum becomes a central element whose function is to reveal. This “semblance” is constructed by isolating a single element in the image or, conversely, by accumulating a mass of information. ©Emmanuelle Indekeu