Michel Erussard
My last exhibition at Galerie Camille was two years ago. So little time went by and so much has changed since then. But I kept making pictures of my dreams.
In the last two years I have used printing paper and Japanese rice paper, fascinated by the new textures that they offered.
In this exhibition there are also three large paintings done in the 90’s. Paintings done using sprays over backgrounds of fresh oil paint, and a knife to cut through it.
Eric Perry
What Times Leaves Behind brings together two bodies of work that examine how time marks what we build. The first body of work was made in Rome, in and around the Forum – where history exists in layers rather than lines. Thes black-and-white photographs are constructed to feel unearthed. Through Texture, tonal restraint, and surface intervention, the images recall early photographic plates, evoking a sense of age, erosion and permanence. Architecture becomes memory; memory becomes surface.
The second body of work turns toward modern architecture, photographed in Italy and across the United States. Here, scaler increases and structure sharpens. Typographic forms are introduced but intentionally overexposed, unreadable, functioning not as language but as texture. Meaning dissolves into form, reflecting a contemporary landscape shaped as much by design and excess as by intention.
Presented in two separate rooms, the work invites quiet comparison. One space reflects what endures. The other considers what accumulates. Together, they ask how time alters the build world – and how photography can hold both the past and the present in the same frame.