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Placed under the sign of duality, Nathalie Rao's first exhibition cultivates the paradoxes and ambiguous relationships that all beings maintain bb3b-136bad5cf58d_First clue to this quest for identity, the work entitled Likely which is composed of two portraits at first sight identical, twin and yet different. Voluntarily dissociated in the exhibition space, this diptych by the apparent_cc781905- 5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_similarity that it stages reveals the small gap, the interstice that separates reality from the fiction, the true from the probability. _cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_

Genuine male pendant, Sleeper is part of the same approach in these two photographs, the same man, lying on le ground,_cc78 1905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_seems According to the point of vue of the artist, sleeping or can be worse…If offered us a frontal view, the framing and the angle of view ofSleepercauses  a circulation of the gaze inside the image and consequently the outline of a story. 

  The spectator, although he has an alternative (the choice between two situations antinomics: sleep or die), wife the vision of Nathalie Rao. 

  This freedom is  this privilege, the artist nevertheless abandons it in the installation From you to me entrusting to relatives or strangers the care of taking her picture in different places public. The series, made up of several dozen photos, draws by petite touches a portrait of the artist, but even more certainly, raises the question of the identity of_cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ces anonymous photographers. 

  After exposing herself to the gaze of others, Nathalie Rao ends up turning the lens back on herself. Fruit of a performance where the artist holds a camera at arm's length and films himself embracing people presents, the video_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf 58d_Kisses  is designed as the first attempt to establish a mediation, through the_cc78190 5-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_camera._cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_

  Between the spectator (the other) and herself. The device, governed by the arm of Nathalie Rao, records the images blind because no eye really guides it. 

 La approach reaches its peak in the work Voi, where the video although made according to  the same process incorporates a new element: the complete blindness of the artist during the filming. Sum of visions or absence of gaze, all of the works presented in this exhibition (installations, photographs, videos) offer the viewer a journey in which everyone builds their own reality .
 

Texte Fabienne Fulcheri for the exhibitionX 

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.Placed under the sign of duality, the first exhibition of Nathalie Rao cultivates the paradoxes and the ambiguous relationships that all being maintains with the other. First clue to this quest for identity, the work entitledLikelywhich consists of two portrait at first sight identical, twin and yet different. , the gap which separates reality from fiction, the true from the probable.

True male counterpart, sleepingis part of the same approach in these two photographs the same man, lying on the ground, seems according to the artist's point of view, sleeping or maybe worse ... If Vraissenblables offered us a frontal vision , the frame and the angle of view of Sleeper cause a circulation of the glance inside the image and consequently the draft of a story. 

 The spectator, although he has an alternative((the choice between two contradictory situations: sleep or death), espouses the vision of Nathalie Rao. 

 This freedom and this privilege  the artist however abandons it in the installationFrom you tomeen  entrusting relatives or strangers to take pictures of it in different public places. The series, made up of dozens of photos, draws in small touches a portrait of the artist, but more certainly, raises the question of the identity of these anonymous photographers.

 After being exposed to the eyes of others, Nathalie Rao ends up flipping the lens on herself. Fruit of a performance where the artist holds a camera at arm's length and filming itself embracing those present, theKissingvideo is intended as the first attempt to initiate mediation, through the camera.

 Between the spectator (the other) and herself.

 The process reaches its climax in the workSee,  where the video, although produced using the same process, incorporates a new element: the artist's complete blindness during filming. the works presented in this exhibition (installations, photographs, videos) offers the viewer a journey in which everyone builds their own reality.

 

Text Fabienne Fulcheri for the exhibition X

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