Transparences liquides — Anne-Camille Allueva, Matan Mittwoch, Laure Tiberghien, Emmanuel Van der Auwera — CPIF — Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France — Exhibition — Slash Paris

In 3 months: January 25 → May 31, 2026

The group exhibition Liquid Transparencies questions the current conditions of our visual perception (duration, space, attention) as well as the inexhaustible diversity of cultural, sensory, and technological filters that shape it. Attentive to the agency of visitors, the featured approaches rekindle reflection on these issues by subtly shifting the modalities of seeing. By exploring contemporary regimes of image production and dissemination, they shed light on how images configure both our gaze and the structures of our thought.

Liquid Transparencies brings together still and moving images that gradually reveal themselves, raising the question of the time required for looking. Rich in detail and nuance, sometimes pared down yet enigmatic, the presented works each, in their own way, establish the conditions for a perceptual experience that can make us more aware of the act of observation itself. In this sense, they problematize our (in)attention toward the contemporary flow of media.

Understood as an embodied gesture anchored in a specific space and time, vision lies at the heart of the practices presented, which nevertheless address multiple themes. Laure Tiberghien explores the emergence of a motif through a protocol that gives central importance to the movement of the body and to gestures performed in the photographic laboratory, in a constant negotiation with chemistry, light, and time. Anne Camille-Allueva presents works that emphasize perception as the action of a moving body in search of a viewpoint, where the image arises less as a fixed sign than as a situated and transitory phenomenon.

Matan Mittwoch, in turn, engages with the optical devices of our era and most notably the screen to reveal their fundamental ambiguity between illumination and blindness, clarity and opacity. Finally, Emmanuel Van der Auwera examines the circulation and manipulation of information by deconstructing the mediums through which images are disseminated, highlighting their potentially deceptive nature.

Whether political, formal, or conceptual, the various approaches converge around the questions raised by the screen, both as a material object and as a space for thought. It is alternately conceived as a familiar everyday tool (tablet, computer, or television) as a surface that retains, diffracts, or filters light like a veil or a pane of glass, or as a critical paradigm that brings to light the layered and complex nature of our relationship to reality, never entirely transparent or fixed, but shifting, fluid, and in constant reformulation.

While the connections between phenomenological (inquiry rooted in a sensitive relationship to the world) and artistic creation became particularly significant from the 1960s onward, notably on the American scene, they remain alive and continue to renew themselves today. Reflecting the relevance of these explorations, the assembled practices take into account the specificities of contemporary photographic production and, more broadly, the current modalities of producing and disseminating technical images like photography, video, computer generated images that condition both our gaze and our thought.

Curated by Francesco Biasi and Nathalie Giraudeau