Untitled, art San Francisco

Galerie Nicolas Robert and MKG127 are pleased to announce their participation to UNTITLED, art San Francisco from January 16 – 19, 2020, where we will present a selection of works by Jérôme Nadeau and Deanna Bowen.

Untitled, art San Franciso
Pier 35
1454 The Embarcadero
Booth C10

Jérôme Nadeau’s photographic practice explores the limits generated by the interpretation and the expectations we have about images. Interested in disrupting their conventions and redefining their generally accepted meaning, his work proposes a reflection on the status of the image in relation to a subject and the inherent qualities located at the intersection of mediums. His use of photography examines many production processes that are generally left invisible, thus giving way to an exploration of photographic sensitivity beyond its intended use. His work is filtered through many transformative processes, creating a complex and cryptic suite of investigations examining the various stages of manufacturing and distribution of photographic images.
 
The works presented by Deanna Bowen are from the King Studio Photos series, a large-scale portrait series of Black burlesque dancers from 1960-69. The portraits were shot at the now-defunct King Photo Studio, in Vancouver, British Columbia. As with most of Bowen’s auto-ethnographic work, these images have connections to her family. Beyond the personal, this photo series documents the lives and presence of unknown black women and men in a city that consistently erases black people from its civic history and consciousness. Canadian anti-blackness actively relies upon a “no black people, no racism” mythology, and Bowen’s art practice does the work of excavating and mapping the purposefully forgotten thriving black communities that have since dispersed throughout Canada and the USA (including California).