FRENCH INSTITUTE
UNTIL FEBRUARY 26
Into the Light - Photographs by Jérôme Lorieau
From ‘Bestiary - Photographs by Dominique Laugé’
This photographic documentary portrays the influence of light on Edinburgh’s everyday, urban life. In winter, low natural sunlight has a key effect on people’s psyche, filling the soul with energy and dispelling the feeling of winter darkness. When the time comes for the sun to reclaim the sky, people invade the city’s streets and gardens. This human life is mirrored by a world of light and shade, transforming the urban landscape into a surreal and spectacular world of black and white mass.
MARCH 3-31
Bestiary - Photographs by Dominique Laugé
As alive as it is abstract, there is something dazzling and new about Laugé’s ‘Bestiary’. If art is a totally subjective vision expressed in a universal language, there are few works which demonstrate this notion as clearly as these. You have to seek it out, because with all their boldness of angles, eccentric solutions and unnatural colours, Laugé’s images appear so real, so complete and in a sense so classical, that they appear to have existed for ever. This is not the case: to comprehend this, try to imagine them before they were invented.
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