His two works suggest the darkness of light
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:19 am
A bewildering variety of light is seen in one work, in which a dysfunctional lamp and heat meter are combined with a postcard depicting a black and white image of fire and smoke in a city. Another of his installations consists of a metallic beast, a palm tree giving off an orange glow next to a small painted surface (as casual as a Polaroid or a small photo) showing a soldier in combat gear shrouded in smoke and clouds Red / orange.
how light is a prelude to a long reigning shadow. This could be translated in political or personal terms, a clue of what one gets from the work of Genevieve Gleize. A combination of photographs placed on the gallery wall. Using the site of an old establishment in Madrid, Teotro Cervantes, it documents the play of light on stage, in the architecture and the rows of seats, all with various accents.
But the set of images, installed as one (or a series), suggests a time that survives in memories – or memories in the form of photographs. Because anyway, when we take a photo, we anticipate and prepare our personal phone number library memory bank, with stored images that remind us and reconnect us to the places we visited once, perhaps for a few seconds (time needed to click on our cameras or press our smart phones).
A bit like the monumental novel by Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time, Gleize’s work documents an abandoned place of magnificent light spreading, defining, veiling and eroding the details of the chairs, of the stage – in fact, the entire configuration of grandeur, using the language of chiaroscuro rebirth. Not only the distribution of light and dark, but also the staging of its subject, the central scene, in its structure, reminds the viewer of the work of Leonardo da Vinci The last supper, with its illusion of perspective.
how light is a prelude to a long reigning shadow. This could be translated in political or personal terms, a clue of what one gets from the work of Genevieve Gleize. A combination of photographs placed on the gallery wall. Using the site of an old establishment in Madrid, Teotro Cervantes, it documents the play of light on stage, in the architecture and the rows of seats, all with various accents.
But the set of images, installed as one (or a series), suggests a time that survives in memories – or memories in the form of photographs. Because anyway, when we take a photo, we anticipate and prepare our personal phone number library memory bank, with stored images that remind us and reconnect us to the places we visited once, perhaps for a few seconds (time needed to click on our cameras or press our smart phones).
A bit like the monumental novel by Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time, Gleize’s work documents an abandoned place of magnificent light spreading, defining, veiling and eroding the details of the chairs, of the stage – in fact, the entire configuration of grandeur, using the language of chiaroscuro rebirth. Not only the distribution of light and dark, but also the staging of its subject, the central scene, in its structure, reminds the viewer of the work of Leonardo da Vinci The last supper, with its illusion of perspective.