Marcel Sitcoske Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new work by French artist Anne Deleporte. Anne Deleporte will be exhibiting three new series of photographs: “Spitting Images”, “Painted Concrete”, and the “Freud Series”. Within all three of these series, Deleporte offers the viewer a new way to look at the trivial and the mundane. This is the first time her work has been shown on the West Coast.

In the Spitting Image Series, distorted silhouettes float in front of an empty gallery, full of debris. The striking simplicity with which these images are made (with her own form and broken glass) is both witty and thoughtful. With a keen sense of economy of means, Deleporte has created a commentary on the veracity of what we see when gazing at simulacra. The photographs taken at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna are also variations on the self-portrait. They were taken in the Freud Museum, which is the original house in which he lived. The Museum houses relics of his life, all of which are contained in boxes protected by glass. Deleporte has taken photos of herself, which are reflected in the red wallpaper lined glass, giving the appearance of an apparition like form that emerges from the glass.

The third series, titled “Painted Concrete” is seemingly abstract at first, appearing simply as beautiful vivid abstract color fields. Her focus here is not simply on the objects she photographs but more so on the act of viewing them as she says, on a strange contradiction based on reflection and depth.

In drawing our attention to that which we might overlook or dismiss, Deleporte gives us a gift of vision that we can then carry into the world. By coaxing the peripheral by capturing the ephemeral, her conceptual projects invert, subvert, and seduce. *

* Simon Watson, Anne Deleporte: Signs & Facts (Paris: Aux Éditions Des Cendres, 2002)