Carl Trahan
What Is a Shadow That It Must Be Captured?

The artist explores the photographic act through the prism of negation and mysticism. Investigating how this discipline has, since its beginnings, influenced our relationship with reality, the artist offers a re-reading of theoretical writings from the 1980s that viewed photography as a means of evading “the unendurability that is life.”

Upcoming essay by Michel Hardy-Vallée.