Cloud Atlas, 2022
Digital photographs and map details,
Cyanotype prints on Hahnemulhe Platinum Rag 8 x 8 inches
Digital photographs and map details,
Cyanotype prints on Hahnemulhe Platinum Rag 8 x 8 inches
Memory Holes series, 2021, Photochemigram
Giclée prints on Washi paper 22.5 x 15.5 inches
At the crossroad of art and science, this project explores questions of memory and oblivion within our current technological regime. Looking at the various resources and processes behind data encoding, storage and retrieval, it aims at outlining a political economy of memory in the twenty-first century.
In the first chapter (Lethe), I used photography and printmaking techniques to explore the gesture of erasure as well as thresholds of invisibility. I gave a shape and colour to the externalised memory of our times, which incidentally is also the biggest infrastructure ever built in human history.
In the first chapter (Lethe), I used photography and printmaking techniques to explore the gesture of erasure as well as thresholds of invisibility. I gave a shape and colour to the externalised memory of our times, which incidentally is also the biggest infrastructure ever built in human history.
Encounter (Paris-Bombay, 2014-2020), 2021 Digital photograph
Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Rice paper,10 x 8 inches
The Golden Pond is fictional short story by Zeenat Nagree inspired by Lethe and published by TARQ
Levikha (Russia, 2019),
from the ‘Dissolving The Earth’ series, 2021 Photochemigram
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Metallic Paper 44 x 30 inches
"Philippe Calia's research is at the heart of our current and shared preoccupation with the environment. But for him these questions are closely associated with his practice, and his concern to take into account a global context in a thorough manner. [...]
In this new project he aims to push further an investigation started in 2020 during the lockdown. For many photographers, the inability to go out and take pictures during this period prompted an adaptation, a new way of working. For Philippe Calia, it is the very far distance seen by Google Earth that became the first research material. The images produced, which resemble chemigrams, raise the question of the relationship between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
The notion of size scale is then put in perspective with time scale in 'Praxis du Souvenir', a video which evokes, in its form, a kind of variation of La Jetée by Chris Marker. Here though, the anguish of the future is not anymore in connection with an hypothetical other planet, it is rather caused by an irremediable dissolution of matters.”
Christine Barthe
Unsealed Chamber, Romain Roland Gallery, New Delhi (2021)
Lēthē, TARQ Gallery, Mumbai (2022)
Lēthē, TARQ Gallery, Mumbai (2022)
Lēthē, TARQ Gallery, Mumbai (2022)
Lēthē, TARQ Gallery, Mumbai (2022)
Lēthē, TARQ Gallery, Mumbai (2022)
Lēthē, TARQ Gallery, Mumbai (2022)
Unsealed Chamber, Romain Roland Gallery, New Delhi (2021)
Installation Views (2021-2022)