CURATING A PHOTO ART EXHIBITION :
“Expressions” by Rithika Thadani.
Extract from Abdoulayem Loic
Images are here to remind us what is here, what is around us, what it was, and what will never be again. And where could photography serve that story more strongly than when it captures and puts the real into frames? Be it nature or not, it is about what moves us. And it starts with Art.
EXPRESSIONS is presented as a huis-clos in a white space. To make it work, Kreative Kwame and Rhitika Thadani put a lot of dedication into selecting about 20 stories out of more than 300 taken between India and Cameroon. While curating, you often experience heartbreaks because of the number of pieces left behind. But at the end of the day, you have to choose not the beautiful but the expressive ones fitting the history of the artist and the precise part of it, he/she wants to tell through the exhibition. In EXPRESSIONS, we are called to take it slow and to watch what we usually leave behind because the pace of the story in front of us doesn’t fit the rush of our industrialised lives. Yes, our industrialised lives. Put it on the system if you want, but we are so often the ones industrialising our lives. How? You know.
