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| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2009 |
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| For Vincent Lafrance seeing is thinking, and perception – of anything at all – is implicitly aesthetic, spurring the possibilities of the camera; skill is simply a means to an end, one of many. His art implies a perfectionism that is itself a form of humor. Despite the stillness and beauty, sight gags abound in the imagery; we find in this new body of work another set of things we would not expect to confront in art or life, and yet somehow bewilderingly expect; in the space of one show, as here in Cinq Photoghraphies, he intervenes in such a way as to address us and himself comprehensively, and spur our reaction; in the remotest of physical and conceptual territories, as well as the most seemingly obvious. [FULL VERSION] |
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Vincent Lafrance |
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