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Vid Ingelevics
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The recent photographic series
by Vid Ingelevics entitled Between art and Art opposes
the art of making history and the history of
Art. In it, he pursues his investigation of the
space of the museum, this time by observing its non-places:
corridors between galleries, stairwells, entrance halls,
boutiques, and so on. In the face of these images, which
reveal such non-places to our gaze, we are obliged to
take note of what the principles of space at work in
museums try to make us forget. A guard’s desk
in the corner, a red fire extinguisher under a stairway,
a telephone hanging in the middle of a wall, an empty
display case come into view as traces of a place inhabited
by the people who work there, “practised places”
which, when examined by the camera, acquire an identity
and a history. Ingelevics’s images remind us that
photography is always a space in which history is staged,
even if some histories can sometimes be difficult to
re-create if we do not have access to the narratives
of those who produced them.
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Vid Ingelevics, Royal Ontario Museum #22, 2002, Fuji chromogenic
print, 28 x 35,5 cm; Metropolitain Museum of Art, #22, 2000,
Fuji chromogenic print, 58 x 69 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
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