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John Latour, Woman and three girls posing around a tree (one girl sitting between tree branches), 2024
John Latour, Woman and three girls posing around a tree (one girl sitting between tree branches), 2024

John Latour

Woman and three girls posing around a tree (one girl sitting between tree branches), 2024
found photograph with acrylic paint
2 3/8 x 3 1/4 in
6 x 8.2 cm
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$1,000 (encadrée / framed)
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) John Latour, M. was a Modern Chimera, 2005
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[English follows] La photographie, l'art textuel et la sculpture de John Latour explorent le concept du « passé » et la manière dont il est médiatisé par des images, des...
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[English follows] La photographie, l'art textuel et la sculpture de John Latour explorent le concept du « passé » et la manière dont il est médiatisé par des images, des textes et des objets. Dans son travail photographique, il utilise des instantanés trouvés ou des portraits d'individus et de petits groupes de personnes du début du vingtième siècle. En appliquant des mouchetures de peinture blanche sur ces figures anonymes, leurs traits deviennent flous et mis en évidence - existant à la fois dans le passé et le présent, dans un état de présence et d’absence. Ce processus d’effacement fait écho à la disparition inévitable de tout sujet au fil du temps.

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John Latour’s text-based art, sculpture, and found photography highlight the ways in which we connect with the past, and how this uniquely human activity is mediated through words, objects, and images. In his photographic work, he uses found snapshots or portraits of individuals and small groups of people from the early twentieth century. By applying flecks of white paint to these anonymous figures, their features become blurred and highlighted – existing both in the past and the present, in a state of presence and absence. This process of erasure points to the inevitable fading of all subjects over time.
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United Contemporary (Toronto) May 2025
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