Jeremy Bolen: Cern
@ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
In an effort to rethink documentary tendencies, Jeremy Bolen employs a series of site-specific, experimental photographic techniques to explore the tensions between traditional representation and invisible phenomena. Bolen uses bodies of water, soil, unexposed film, and self-designed multi-lens cameras as recording devices, rethinking the apparatus for each site to capture events beyond human perception. He collaborates closely with scientists, piggybacking on their experiments to record evidence of unknown and unresolved energy, from forgotten natural disasters and particle acceleration, to the surface of the film. The film becomes a responsive membrane leaving a documentary trace, an ambient map, a literal, empirical index that makes the unknown less abstract. The final images are re-immersed in the site material where they were conceived, causing a tension between the real and the representational.
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