Daufresne, Damien: Undertow "I learn that the world goes round;
so I am waiting here for my house to pass by".
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
Home - not in a sense of the material four walls, but such constellations of different universes that together make up this space that can be called that. And this is the most beautiful part of it. In his newest book, Damien Daufresne unveils the secret of one such universe - Undertow.
As Marie Belorgey writes in her essay: “The pictures open and fold back on themselves by turns. They renew their sound, their weight, unfold their depth, or don’t, depending on the moment. The skins’ grain answers the photographic material’s, alternately expanding and tightening like starlings in flight, unravelling the metamorphoses of a same, luminous momentum, a flesh shared by beings and places, manifested following different degrees of density, permeability, transparency. And here and there the film, scratched, smeared with salt, studded with fingerprints, meets with the texture of a world we can feel is loved in all its forms, embraced according to the paradoxes it vibrates with.It’s about beginnings, perhaps about ends, articulated in an open ellipse that marks out the moving, growing heart of things from crest to crater." fr., en., offset print, charcoal drawings, collectors edition, Black velvet with hot stamping, Clamshell box with velvet, 160p, 8.9 x 11.8 inch, Ed. of 5 Unikate, num., sign., Warschau, 2022, Blow Up Press Request of availability backnext