1:07 Thème et variations From Liuli China Museum
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Leperlier finds many parallels between analogue photograhy and glass sculpture. Both mediums need light to exist (either by burning the silver salt from the photographic paper or by revealing the transparency of glass). They both use a negative and then a positive (such as the film in photography and the plaster mould in Pâte de Verre).
Juliette designed this series of cups specifically to create photograms. She places the object directly on photographic paper and then exposes them to light to imprint what she calls, “the true-self” of the object on the paper. Where the light can reach, the paper will burn, where it cannot, the paper remains white. Photograms are the two dimensional vision of a condensed matter.
This installation creates a bridge between between Pâte de Verre sculpture and photography by displaying three states of light: fixed in a photography, sculpted in glass and animated by shadows.
