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Vid Ingelevics
 

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.

 



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.