Dissolution
Tatiana Lecomte
Camera Austria
German and English
Softcover
Includes textual insights
108 pages
220 x 285 mm
2011
ISBN 9783900508876
Tatiana Lecomte’s photographic oeuvre is certainly among the most wilful and challenging from a younger generation of artists in Austria. She mainly makes use of found images or existing reproductions, which she enlarges in an analogue procedure and processes. In this way, she brings the grid pattern of the original reproduction, the surface of the objects and the grain of the enlargement into an oscillating relationship, in which object and reproduction virtually coincide. In addition, the reproductions she uses refer again and again to (traumatic) historical events (war, annihilation, people and society as a laboratory for power and violence), the significance of which is essentially unrepresentable and which cannot be reduced to replicable elements of reality. For this reason, Lecomte’s work has to be read as more political than aesthetic: as querying photographic representation, as doubt in the appropriateness of visualisation, i.e. as image politics undermining the codifications of meanings. Where is the boundary of photographic representation to be set, what happens between image and reality? Hardly anything in Lecomte’s work is to be seen as a trace of reality, but everything has to do with traces of this reality―as the result of a photographic praxis itself.
(Source: https://camera-austria.at/en/buecher/dissolution/)
About the Artist
Tatiana Lecomte is a contemporary artist. Tatiana Lecomte is a french female artist born in Bordeaux (FR) in 1971.
Tatiana Lecomte’s first verified exhibition was Nach vier kommt fünf at Galerie Martin Janda in Vienna in 1998, and the most recent exhibition was Hinschaun! Poglejmo at Landesmuseum Kärnten in Klagenfurt in 2025. Tatiana Lecomte is most frequently exhibited in Austria, but also had exhibitions in Germany, Greece and elsewhere. Lecomte has at least 6 solo shows and 72 group shows over the last 27 years.
Tatiana Lecomte is ranked among the Top 10,000 globally, and among the Top 1,000 in France. Lecomte’s best rank was in 2018, with the most dramatic change in 2001
tatianalecomte.com
(Source: https://artfacts.net/artist/tatiana-lecomte/43774)
About the Publisher
Since 1980, the journal Camera Austria International has provided its readers with insights into important debates on the role of photography as a medium and practice in contemporary art, presenting outstanding artists who have made extraordinary contributions to the continuous development of the medium. The journal is not primarily committed to topicality, but rather provides materials that remain important as sources of long-term, sustained discourse, even in retrospect. Over the years, this has evolved into an – at times surprising – archive and reference work on contemporary photography.
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