Nostalgia

Grand Palais Éphémère
Champ-de-Mars, Paris 75007

Opening hours:
Thursday - Saturday, 1pm - 8pm
Sunday, 1pm - 7pm

David Horvitz, Nostalgia

?These sentences are the captions of photographs that no longer exist.?

On the occasion of the inaugural edition of Paris Photo's Digital Sector curated by Nina Roehrs, we are pleased to present David Horvitz, Nostalgia, an immersive solo booth composed solely of text works and dedicated to the artist's ongoing project ?about erasure, memory, forgetting, data, archives, etcetera.?, composed entirely of textual works.

"In 2018, in a culture overwhelmed by (mostly digital) photographs, when attention span is eroded, I decided to start erasing my photographic archive. This erasure became a work of art. I called it Nostalgia."  Since 2018, David Horvitz (b. 1981, lives in Los Angeles) erased thousands of photographs from his personal archive. In the process, he selected a group of photographs and described them individually in short texts before erasing them. Similar to a prose poem, each text also includes the digital data of the image, and raises questions of memory and forgetting, of our need to record, of the hierarchy between experience and memory. The title Nostalgia refers to Hollis Frampton's (nostalgia) (1971), a video in which, with the participation of Michael Snow, the artist slowly burned his photographs while commenting on them.