From the Other Side - Solo show Juliette Lemontey
From the Other Side, Juliette Lemontey
April 8-31
“There is another world but it is in this one.” Paul Eluard
That scoop-back pink sweater, a cowboy lighting a cigarette, the little black evening gown worn with ropes of pearls, a portrait of an Indian, a group of dancers, that embracing couple, all spark a déjà vu: a movie scene, a photo pose, the memory of a moment, a feeling…
For From the Other Side, her first show at the Amélie du Chalard gallery in New York, Juliette Lemontey took as her subject images from American movies in her personal filmography. Each refers to more or less familiar images from cinema’s collective memory, without insisting upon total re/cognition. At once close and distant, these “freeze frames” echo intimate sensations and emotions.