Erasures

Whether in visual expressions or in texts, erasures are invitations to scrutinize, read, and interpret. Marking a mutation in style, content or form, they are about presence and absence, mutations and updates, old and new versions, a “before” and an “after.” An erasure may be an action (that of deleting), a state (the blankness resulting from this action) or the juxtaposition of what has been erased, still visible, and of the new mark or script replacing it (also named “sous-rature,” often translated as “under erasure." This exhibition welcomes different types of erasures, be they scenes lacking important elements, simplified adaptations of existing artworks, or abstracted forms of figurative objects. To accompany these pieces, short written statements commenting on well-known digital artworks result from extensive editing as well as our readiness to create voids and unusual associations. Rather than correcting something wrong, erasures are signs of process and of an expanding imagination. Curators: Shawn Serfas and Catherine Parayre