{"id":1471,"date":"2017-09-08T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T10:28:51","slug":"raphael-dallaporta-correspondance-chauvet-pont-darc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/2017\/09\/raphael-dallaporta-correspondance-chauvet-pont-darc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapha\u00ebl Dallaporta \u2013 Correspondance & Chauvet-Pont-d\u2019Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foam Fusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> 9 -11 june 2017<\/p>\n

Rapha\u00ebl Dallaporta (b. France, 1980) is internationally acclaimed for his long-term collaborative projects with professionals from a wide range of fields. He has worked closely with a landmine clearer (Antipersonnel<\/em>), a reporter who covers social work at its intersection with the law (Domestic Slavery<\/em>), a forensic pathologist (Fragile<\/em>) and archaeologists (Ruins<\/em>). He is concerned with public issues addressing human rights as well as more symbolic subjects such as the fragility of life. He usually combines text and images. In 2011 Dallaporta was the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award and to mark the occasion he presented four of his long- term projects in the exhibition Observation<\/em>. This current exhibition presents two of his recent collaborative projects.<\/p>\n

Correspondance <\/em>(2015)\u00a0is an installation inspired by the collaboration between Joseph Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce (1765 \u2013 1833) and Louis-Jacques-Mand\u00e9 Daguerre (1787 \u2013 1851), the inventors of photography. It is based on the codes they used in their correspondence to protect the secret of the photographic technique. When writing to each other they used numbers in place of any terms that had to do with the technical procedure, such as essence of lavender or sulphuric acid. Despite the fact that only Daguerre\u2019s part of the correspondence and a page of encryption by Ni\u00e9pce have survived, a team of scientists attached to the Mus\u00e9e Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce succeeded in cracking the codes.<\/p>\n

Ni\u00e9pce\u2019s photograph of a view out across the roofs of Paris is often regarded as the first photograph. Yet we know of an older photo by Ni\u00e9pce, of a laid table. It has been lost and now exists only as a reproduction in a book. Dallaporta converted a JPG of that picture into numbers and symbols from which it is composed, then replaced the combinations of figures that corresponded with Ni\u00e9pce and Daguerre\u2019s codes with the words to which they refer. This distorts the image. As Dallaporta says, \u2018I am intimately convinced that secrecy is the source of every photographic image. [\u2026] So here as a contribution and a tribute to all secrets that photography keeps hidden, I offer, symbolically, the hundred or so original mentions the code concealed.\u2019<\/p>\n

The geological site known as the Chauvet-Pont-d\u2019Arc Cave (2016) is at the heart of the Ard\u00e8che department in southern France. It was untouched for more than 30,000 years before its discovery in 1994. Access to its hundreds of cave paintings is limited strictly to researchers and scientists, but Dallaporta entered into a collaboration with them and gained access to the cave. He took panoramic photographs of the interior that reveal painted horses, lions, apes and bison.<\/p>\n

Dallaporta superimposed mathematical shapes on the photos, using pigments of red clay from the Chauvet-Pont-d\u2019Arc Cave. The shapes are derived from the Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller, who unfolded, as it were, the entire surface of the earth to make it flat. This created a complete map of the world without either visual distortion or the divisions between continents that artificially split humanity, enabling us to see the world more accurately. Dallaporta\u2019s use of the map is a reference to the anthropological hypothesis that all caves are linked to each other and to the universe as a whole<\/p>\n

Rapha\u00ebl Dallaporta won the Young Photographer ICP Infinity Award in 2010 and the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2011. His work has been exhibited at the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Elys\u00e9e in Switzerland and at the Mus\u00e9e Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce and Les Rencontres d\u2019Arles, both in France. Antipersonnel, Domestic Slavery, Ruins, Fragile <\/em>and Chauvet \u2013 Pont-d\u2019Arc L\u2019inappropriable <\/em>have been published as books.<\/p>\n

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