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Jacqueline Salmon: The Blind Spot; Perizoniums, Studies and Variations.
SALMON Jacqueline.

Jacqueline Salmon: The Blind Spot; Perizoniums, Studies and Variations.

Silvana
€35,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 26297
Format 22 x 30
Détails 320 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover.
Publication Milan, 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9788836652389
An emblematic detail of any Crucifixion that has become, thanks to Jacqueline Salmon, the sole center of attention (and no longer just the middle of the composition), the perizonium, deprived by the close-up of its narrative or religious context, runs the risk of losing part of its symbolic force in favor of its sole formal value, which itself refers to a typology: that of the drape. But the perizonium is not just a drape like any other. If iconological classification aims to relate singularity to a type, something resists in this specific case, because this piece of pleated, knotted, or unfurled fabric is the one that, encircling Christ's hips, hides his nudity on the cross. Its singularity can therefore only be irreducible, as symbolized in certain images, in the framing done by the photographer, by a finger pointing in its direction... These accidents, which are themselves details in the new whole proposed by the framing decided by Jacqueline Salmon, provoke the suspense of the gaze, a form of stasis which breaks the line, underlines the tension between the work and the image and refers to the singularity of the photographer's gaze which, by framing, cutting, cutting out, decomposes in order to better recompose.
An emblematic detail of any Crucifixion that has become, thanks to Jacqueline Salmon, the sole center of attention (and no longer just the middle of the composition), the perizonium, deprived by the close-up of its narrative or religious context, runs the risk of losing part of its symbolic force in favor of its sole formal value, which itself refers to a typology: that of the drape. But the perizonium is not just a drape like any other. If iconological classification aims to relate singularity to a type, something resists in this specific case, because this piece of pleated, knotted, or unfurled fabric is the one that, encircling Christ's hips, hides his nudity on the cross. Its singularity can therefore only be irreducible, as symbolized in certain images, in the framing done by the photographer, by a finger pointing in its direction... These accidents, which are themselves details in the new whole proposed by the framing decided by Jacqueline Salmon, provoke the suspense of the gaze, a form of stasis which breaks the line, underlines the tension between the work and the image and refers to the singularity of the photographer's gaze which, by framing, cutting, cutting out, decomposes in order to better recompose.