Karine Laval @ Benrubi Gallery

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Karine Laval @ Benrubi Gallery

May 7th, 2016 by fstop

Karine Laval: Artificial by Nature
May 19 – July 1, 2016

Opening reception: May 19, 2016 6 – 8pm

The gallery’s main space features selections from Laval’s Heterotopia, a series of densely layered photographs of gardens and other manicured “natural” environments. Placing sheets of glass and mirrors in the composition, and employing skewed perspectives and extreme crops, the images in Heterotopia are suffused with the luminescence of stained-glass windows while possessing the uncanny charm of movie stills or extraterrestrial landscapes. Tiny stems appear tall as trees, while empty space fills up with clouds of color that swirl with the celestial movement of nebulas. Yet there are often traces of the unmanipulated scene left in the frame, reminding viewers that this is in fact a familiar world, and the only thing that’s changed is the way it’s perceived. Light, which we’re accustomed to think of as the medium we see through, is revealed for what it is: the medium that brings the images to our eyes, and that possesses layers far richer than what we normally see.

Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street, Floor #2 · New York City · New York · 10001

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