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Charlotte Dumas
Repose
November 4-December 23, 2010
The Julie Saul Gallery would like to announce our first exhibition of
works by Charlotte Dumas entitled Repose. The show will feature works
from several of the artist's series of animal photographs including Reverie,
Tiger Tiger, Heart Shaped Hole, and Heart of a Dog. In each of these projects,
Dumas uses a medium format camera to highlight the intricacies of the
relationship between humans and their animal counterparts, creating an
intimate feeling between the viewer and her depictions of dogs while distancing
the viewer from the more dangerous subjects of the wolf and tiger. Dumas
inspires people to sympathize with the ever-caged animal, entrapped in
a world dominated by the supreme mammal-human.
In her series Reverie (2005), Charlotte Dumas focused on the subject of
wolves, travelling to Norway and Sweden to create portraits of the majestic
canines. Despite her close proximity to the wolves in her photographs,
Dumas reveals the vast distance between the world of humans and wolves
as her photographs portray the wolf as an enigmatic, unfathomable being.
Dumas traveled to the United States to create her series of tiger portraits
entitled Tiger Tiger (2007), photographing these animals within the confines
of zoos, parks, and sanctuaries, in Indiana and Texas. This project explores
the dual role of the sanctuary as it restricts the animal from its natural
habitat as well as protects it from extinction. In her most recent projects,
Heart-Shaped Hole (2008) and Heart of a Dog (2009), Dumas photographed
stray dogs in Palermo and New York City, shedding light on the plight
of strays amidst the chaos of the urban environment.
Charlotte Dumas attended the Rietveld Academie of Amsterdam from 1996-2000
and later studied as a resident at the Rijksacademy for visual Arts in
Amsterdam from 2001-2002. Dumas has participated in three different residences--
at ISCP in New York, Sintesi Cultura in Palermo, and Citι des Arts in
Paris. There have been numerous publications of her work including Day
is Done (2005), Palermo 7 (2006), and India (2008). A stunning book, Repose
will accompany the exhibition and contains ten portraits of wolves, horses,
dogs and tigers that Dumas has encountered in with her camera since 2005.
The pages are inter-folded as loose sheets making it possible to view
them as separate centerfolds. A full color index of portraits from each
series presented prominently lines the inside the cover that firmly encases
the work.
This project is supported, in part, by public funds from the Netherlands
Cultural Services and the Mondriaan Foundation.
CHARLOTTE DUMAS
REPOSE
NOVEMBER 4 - DECEMBER 23, 2010
Entrance:
Reward, 2009
chromogenic print
35 3/8 x 47 1/4
edition 5/5
Top left to right:
Polaroid prints, 2 7/8 x 3 3/4, $1400 each
Rome, 2004
Rome, 2004
Paris, 2006|
Palermo, 2006
Palermo, 2006
Rome, 2004
Palermo, 2006
Rome, 2004
Palermo, 2006
Office:
Heart Shaped Hole, 2008
chromogenic print
31 1/2 x 23 5/8
edition 2/5
Main Gallery
East wall:
Sam, 2007
chromogenic print
3 9 3/4 x 53 1/8
edition 2/5
North wall:
Levi, 2007
chromogenic print
11 3/4 x 15 3/4
edition 1/7
Eerie, 2005
chromogenic print
29 1/8 x 37 3/8
edition 3/5
Tom Tom II, 2008
chromogenic print
11 3/4 x 15 3/4
edition 2/7
B, 2005
chromogenic print
15 3/4 x 12 5/8
edition 2/7
Taza, 2005
chromogenic print
31 1/2 x 23 5/8
edition of 5
FW, 2007
chromogenic print
11 3/4 x 15 3/4
edition 3/7
West wall:
Nero, 2004
chromogenic print
45 1/4 x 60 5/8
edition 2/5
South wall:
Tom Tom, 2008
chromogenic print
11 3/4 x 15 3/4
edition 1/7
$2800
India, 2007
chromogenic print
35 3/8 x 47 1/4
edition of 5
An Odd Sign, 2008
chromogenic print
11 3/4 x 15 3/4
edition of 7
Scatola, 2008
chromogenic print
11 3/4 x 15 3/4
edition of 7
Prints are available in one additional size.
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Links to press:
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Photo-Eye
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Reward, 2009
Heart Shaped Hole, 2008
Sam 2007
Levy 2007
Eerie 2005
Tom Tom II 2007
B 2005
Taza 2005
FW 2007
Nero 2004
Tom Tom, 2008
 India
2007
An Odd Sign 2008
Scatola, 2008
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