David Boulogne
Inadequates

T1 + 2 Artspace is happy to present Inadequates by David Boulogne. This exhibition of C-type digital prints is comprised in the main of a number of large-scale mis en scene portraits of highly distinctive individuals.

Incoherence and the unconventional pervade these works. Model, gaze and physical location form a conflicting, awkward whole, their subjects becoming lost within the overwhelming scale of the image. We feel that these people's attention is held by something squarely located outside the shot. A kind of "essence" of each individual is nevertheless caught on camera. In unmasking the artificial and the bluntly materialistic a clarity of perception is achieved and maintained.

Boulogne reveals to us a contradictory, isolated moment in another person's life. Appearing unable or unwilling to hold to conventional social constraints, these "marginal" characters have in fact chosen to occupy vividly legible, if somewhat disturbing positions or roles. Yet it is our own carefully composed quirks and personas that Boulogne's pictures raise for attention. That which initially seemed alien or threatening is finally seen to be intensely, intimately similar to ourselves. 

Originally from France, Boulogne has lived in London for the past five years. He studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, and the Gobelins-Ecole de l’Image.

6th August - 28th September, 2003 
Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm
Private View: Friday, 15th August, 7pm - 9pm  
For further informaion please contact t12artspace.

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