Thomas Dane Gallery presents 'The Erotics of Passage', Jimmy Robert’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, his first in the gallery in London. The new body of work continues Robert’s exploration of the intersection between photography and sculpture, delving into the instability of memory, image, and narrative. Working with found images, old family photographs and constructed collages Robert avoids the formality and orthodoxy of typical framing methods; instead, allowing his photographs to hang from, drape over, and fold around invented wooden structures. By undermining his photographs’ key illusory function, that of being a window into representation, they teeter in an...
Thomas Dane Gallery presents 'The Erotics of Passage', Jimmy Robert’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, his first in the gallery in London. The new body of work continues Robert’s exploration of the intersection between photography and sculpture, delving into the instability of memory, image, and narrative.
Working with found images, old family photographs and constructed collages Robert avoids the formality and orthodoxy of typical framing methods; instead, allowing his photographs to hang from, drape over, and fold around invented wooden structures. By undermining his photographs’ key illusory function, that of being a window into representation, they teeter in an uncertain place, oscillating between image and object, presence and illusion.
Jutting out from the wall, balanced freestanding in space, and unglazed, the photo-objects feel precarious and vulnerable, emphasised by the charred surfaces of many of the wooden structures. The spectral images drawn across time from Robert’s own family history and studio image archive coalesce into an unstable, intimate visual album.
