Defamiliarization / Reactivation the second personal exhibition of Servane Mary at APALAZZOGALLERY is an occasion for the artist to present an ensemble of new works part of an ongoing series featuring photographs of women riding motorbikes blown up in size and then printed on metal.
On some of the pieces the images are printed on enamel painted steel cylinders. Through this passage into the three dimensions, they suggest a «reverse-side» of the image, and the possibility to access its other side or depth. The way they change the appearance of the image also suggests some rotary presses, and therefore a device that generated, through the mass diffusion of newspapers and magazines an almost universal grid to look at the world, and staging the self according to this frame of reference. On some other works, the image is printed twice on a folded piece of copper, looking like a folding screen. The screens double as sculptures and functional objects; their doubling is literal in terms of the image too, which is doubled as girls on motorbikes, with a knowing nod the Rorschach. They function to both separate and delineate the space, and point toward psychological depths and reflective surface all at once. Three pieces lie horizontally on the gallery floor. Referencing their production, they echo the way they were printed, lying horizontally on the printing table.
