Jeff Weber | Serial Grey: Carré d'Art | Nîmes

15 June - 14 November 2021
Overview
Jeff Weber, Serial Grey, 2021 Exhibition view at Carré d'Art, Nîmes Courtesy of the artist, Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes & Erna Hecey Gallery

Jeff Weber, Serial Grey, 2021
Exhibition view at Carré d'Art, Nîmes
Courtesy of the artist, Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes & Erna Hecey Gallery

For Carré d'Art, Jeff Weber presents a juxtaposition of several bodies of work. In 2013, as part of his collaborative project Kunsthalle Leipzig (2012-2017), he undertook a journey of initiation with the artist Snejanka Mihaylova in order to study Coptic Christianity and more specifically its Gnostic component.
 
This idea of ​​gnosis as a personal journey towards knowledge has resonated with his photographic project An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, which he has been pursuing since 2009 and which sets out to define the paradoxical place where the artist operates, at the crossroads between objective knowledge and intimate experience. It constitutes an empirical method according to which it is through the work on the image itself, in its material form, in its fabrication by means of the photographic technique, that the ideas crystallize and are articulated: the image is the materialization of the formation process.
 
The corpus of large format photograms Untitled (Neural Networks) is the result of a speculation on neuronal activity and its transposition into a digital circuit. These black-and-white grid images are generated by an artificial neural network - a data processing software developed by the artist that emulates the way neurons connect to each other in the brain. The data processed by the software in the form of numerical series modify the relationships between these artificial neurons. They are then transposed into matrices and rendered into pixels by an animated sequence, which is later exposed on photographic paper; it is therefore the neural network that distributes shadow and light over the resulting photogram.
 
This exhibition is part of the satellite program of the Rencontres d'Arles as part of the Grand Arles Express.
Installation Views
Jeff Weber, Serial Grey, 2021
Exhibition view at Carré d'Art, Nîmes
Courtesy of the artist, Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes & Erna Hecey Gallery
Works
Video
Press/Book Release
Serial Grey is the publication for Jeff Weber's exhibition at Carré d'Art, Nîmes. The four chapters of the book correspond to the four galleries of the exhibition. It starts with the Neural Networks, a series of large format grid-like photograms that establish an enigmatic dialogue with his photographic and archival practice. As counterpart to these photograms, the other end of the exhibition consists of black and white 35mm films. Some monochromatic animation films are projected together with short real life sequences. The publication traces the conflicting forces of photography and film within his work, up to the point that, at the end, we rediscover the principles that constituted the abstract photograms at the beginning, transposed into the linearity of the medium of film.
 
The book was published at the occasion of the exhibition Jeff Weber, Serial Grey at Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain de  Nîmes (June 15 - November 14 2021).
 

 

Jeff Weber, Serial Grey

Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam, 2021 with Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, France and Centre National de l'Audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg.

Texts by Jean-François Chevrier and Marie Muracciole

Design by Joris Kritis

192 pages

20x30 cm

ISBN: 978-94-6446-000-1

© 2021, Jeff Weber, Marie Muracciole, Jean-François Chevrier

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