Karine Tomaselli, with her new exhibition ‘YING-YANG’ at Atelier 17, offers us eleven photos taken on the Promenade des Anglais.
The artist explains her technique, which involves superimposing positive and negative shots taken on the same plane. The result is astonishing. The images appear unreal, ethereal, and airy. The figures are spectral, ghostly, like will-o’-the-wisps.
There is an overexposure, the colors burst, the white creates an immense stain, the flight of seagulls is captured, deconstructed. The clouds become the Little Prince’s sheep. The characters stand out from the photo. The artist has crossed to the other side of the mirror, offering us another dimension. Her images are like pastels, paintings, where the colors are alternately tender or, on the contrary, intense.
Karine wants to show us a detail and highlights it. Who are these people captured unknowingly? Are they there? Are they real? Through this exhibition, you will see the Promenade des Anglais from another perspective.
It’s not just the blue chairs; there is something more, and Karine Tomaselli lifts the corner of the sheet, daring us to sneak underneath, where we discover a thousand treasures we never suspected existed. The photographer’s eye, Karine smiles, the camera no longer traps the image. With new technologies, the photographer manages to create the decor and subjects, and a photo becomes a painting imbued with its soul.
This is what Karine Tomaselli has achieved. Atelier 17, the cultural space on Rue des Ponchettes, is exhibiting these eleven photographs until March 31st, eleven being a perfect number, a prime number, eleven emanations of an artist’s vision inviting us to walk on clouds!
Thierry Jan
