REVELATION

On the occasion of the 5th edition of PhotoWeekend, analogueNOW is pleased to present the international group exhibition REVELATION.

The notion of REVELATION designates the fact of bringing to knowledge something previously unknown or hidden. The very principle of photographic development is based on the revelation of a latent image. In addition, as soon as they were discovered, photographic processes were perceived and described as techniques for recording reality, then quickly used in such a way as to contribute to a better knowledge of reality. One thinks, for example, of their scientific, historiographical or judicial uses. 

From this notion deeply linked to photography as a technique, to its uses and to its perception in the collective imagination, the exhibition intends to question the probative power of photographic images, their capacity to make visible, as well as the other side of the coin, that is their misleading, deceitful potential. 

The exhibition brings together projects that reveal unseen, unfamiliar, or undocumented stories, as well as projects that make the photographic act of revealing their subject. The exhibition will explore the alleged transparency, indexicality of analog photography, as well as the social and political role that comes with it.