Replica Obscura (2017)

Exhibition at Bergen Kjøtt. Replica Obscura is a collaboration between Åsne Eldøy and Floriane Grosset, curated by Sara Kollstrøm Heilevang and Numi Thorvarsson.
On site installation, in relations to the gallery space.

Replica Obscura investigates physicality of optics through photographic principals and architectural strategies. During one month Åsne Eldøy and Floriane Grosset was collaborating on forming an exhibition with basis in photography and how it relates to physical experience, shaped by the boundaries of the exhibition space. The exhibition developed during a collective reading of Jonathan Crary's text Techniques of the Observer –On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century.

Works/titles in the exhibition:

  1. Optical Distortion: installed lens object, architectural gest by Åsne Eldøy.

  2. Video work: found footage and magnifier. By Floriane Grosset

  3. A room sized Camera Obscura, defined by the existing architecture, exposing the outside view.

  4. A copied space, inhabited with the techniques of a Laterna Magica, projecting a image of it's surrounds.