Conceptual Work by Dominique Somers (October 17, 2009) 
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Curator statement - Inge Henneman on Dominique Somers
Dominique Somers’ photographic work is a case of subversion des images, a playful questioning of the basic principles of photography. Working as my colleague in the Antwerp Fotomuseum, Somers is confronted with the excess of images, the logic of the archive and the impact of time on the photograph as an object. Somers stages fictive tests and experiments that define or contradict the so-called essence of the photographic medium and its weared out conventions and codes. Happily, accidents can happen! Failure and surprise encounters are favored in this magic camera technology that transform the banal in wonderful ‘sculptures involontaires.’ With fingerprints on a scanner she imagines “The universe within one billion light years” and a print of breath caught between glass holders of enlarger is called “Exhaled air...” Her bricolages border on the conceptual-minimalist tradition. Inge Henneman is curator of the Photo Museum Province Antwerp.
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In her work, the conceptual artist Dominique Somers aims at a playful subversion of the basic principles of photography. Often involving a humorous twist or a play with the absurd, she explores the fine line between making sense of the world or making nonsense of it.
Using small and everyday interventions - such as writing upside down, whistling, cutting, retouching or glueing - Somers creates unexpected shifts in the meaning of things.
The resulting works, often only revealing only the traces of these actions, tackle the unclear relation between image and reality.
By focussing on the noise and blind spots that occur when visual information is being handled, Somers questions the ideas of authenticity and originality, the very foundations of picture-making.
Dominique Somers (1969) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
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