Exhibition held in January 2009, at the Handle With Care Gallery (Crest, FR)


Crest, 1st January 2009 Square infinitesimal

Many of us can agree : a photograph is THE proof, THE trace of reality or even THE absolute depiction which conforts us in our beliefs and nurrishes our knowledge of the world... It is true : in all photographs -even fiddled- a dash of reality brings us back to day-to-day experience, to déjà-vu, to something familiar. But it turns out differently when two or more photographs complete each other or become corrupted, sending us to some kind of universe, impenetrable by our life experience only. Just like in one and only picture, we can be surprised by the subject the image depicts, when all traditional spacial landmarks are absent in favour of a remote or a close view. All of a sudden, what we considered certain wavers, and we are insidiously asked to question causes and effects ; right there Fiction appears, Chaos lies in wait, the Cult of verisimilitude is brought down.

Diane's pictures are inhabited. Angels, daemons, spirits ally themselves to guard the world's hidden and infinitesimal grace. We are deep inside what swarms about in the grass, we are inside the breath of the motherly and kind Earth. A snap catches faster than vision -as long as it is visible- what is sensible. Unexplored places, digged from beneath, can reconlise us with what we thought we knew of the typical and ordinary Wilderness we belong to. One should wander in the pictures, so that one can better seaze oneself the power of this manifest facility Diane proceeded with ; and this is how shifts occur, how langage is lost, how prejudices are forgotten, how the liberty to alter concepts -and with them, meanings- is gained. By picturing the world elsewise, by framing what is futigive in the moment, Diane outdistances natural laws of vision ; she checks upon the logic of breath, questions the warrior's repose, forsees the misdemeanour, probs the mistake, establishes and tests her convictions.

Eventually, personifying the Ephemereous - The ephemerous did what the fairy hasn't done (sound play-on-word in French) - she autorises pictures to allow us to capture the dream.

Lydie Rekow, art theorist.


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