Mustapha Azeroual

For its 11th edition at Somerset house, 1-54 London is hosting 62 art galleries and will be representing over 170 artists working across an array of mediums from painting and...

As often in his work, Mustapha Azeroual revives an ancient process of printing with gum bichromate 1 requiring both patience and concentration, but especially leaving the sublime part to chance. Here, contingency and materiality reign.
For the series Monade(s) - whose title refers to a philosophical concept of Leibniz designating the minimal unit of perception - flashes of light of high intensity, close to burning or radiation, print sumptuous luminous halos on the surface of the paper. (...) Mustapha Azeroual's photograms are based on a paradoxical process of blinding, giving form to visual and geometric traces that are as invisible as they are indelible, like so many flashes of light, in all its unthinkable disappearance.