{"id":45165,"date":"2013-01-22T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=45165"},"modified":"2013-01-29T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T07:55:18","slug":"seceding-a-conversation-with-liz-deschenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/seceding-a-conversation-with-liz-deschenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Seceding: A Conversation with Liz Deschenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Deschenes2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45166\" title=\"Deschenes2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Deschenes2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Deschenes2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Deschenes2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>On a typically snowy January morning in Vienna, I visited the famed Secession to see an exhibition by New York\u2013based artist Liz Deschenes. For many years her work has articulated a materialist stance; rather than taking pictures of things in the world, Deschenes usually works sans camera, turning to the inner life of photography and proposing discursive questions about its philosophical, scientific, and experimental possibilities. Deschenes has recently called her approach \u201cstereographic,\u201d a term originally coined in the 1850s for two nearly identical prints that are paired and viewed through a stereoscope to produce a 3-D illusion of a single image. Deschenes employs this operation of doubling and dividing to give the viewer a chance to actively participate in her work, and it also places an emphasis on the constantly changing nature of her recent photographs. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As soon as I stripped off my coat and sweater at the museum, I learned that I needed to exit, since Deschenes had chosen a rarely used side door outside the building as the entrance to her show. Bringing my attention even more crisply to the Secession\u2019s unique architecture, this unusual parcours led to a so-called \u201cviewfinder,\u201d a small empty hallway before two other rooms that (stereographically) forked to the left and right. Inside these chambers Deschenes had installed a series of moonlight-exposed photograms\u2014<\/em>Stereograph #1\u2013#16<em>, 2012\u2014long and lean silver-toned planks, which she coupled to form four sets in each room. The energetic spaces formed within these brackets reframed and isolated\u2014as one does when taking a picture\u2014the spaces, and they offered an atmosphere for contemplation and concentration. In turn, the photograms themselves were still developing\u2014oxidizing in situ and already bearing the traces of their time spent in the Secession\u2019s lower gallery.<\/em> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>In an interview in the show\u2019s catalogue, Deschenes notes, \u201cThe reference is cameras as rooms. \u2018Camera\u2019 literally means \u2018room\u2019 in Latin.\u201d More specifically, it comes from the Ancient Greek <\/em>\u03ba\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03b1<em>, or \u201ckamara,\u201d anything with an arched cover. Curious to learn more about her installation in this vaulted chamber, as well as the ways in which she feels each piece is never really \u201cfinished,\u201d I asked her a few questions from frosty Vienna about the show. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secession.at\/art\/2012_deschenes_e.html\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition<\/a> is on view at the Secession until February 10, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>These photograms began in Vermont, by being exposed by the night sky. Do you prefer to work nocturnally? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I worked at night for purely practical reasons. Simply put, the paper I used for these pieces is light sensitive, so working during the day\u2014no matter how sunny or cloudy\u2014would overexpose the paper.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mh1ncbQeRf1qced37o1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45307\" title=\"tumblr_mh1ncbQeRf1qced37o1_500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mh1ncbQeRf1qced37o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mh1ncbQeRf1qced37o1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mh1ncbQeRf1qced37o1_500-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>What was it like to install in the Secession? Take us through a little bit of the process of putting the show together in the space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Secession, as you mentioned, has a rather esteemed history.\u00a0In response to the building I wanted to reframe the spaces and the entry point. By doing so, the order of the spaces was thus altered. Bettina\u00a0Sp\u00f6rr, the curator, was instrumental\u00a0to this project\u2014amongst other significant contributions, she managed to convey, in only a twenty-four-hour site visit, the dynamism\u00a0and unique artistic opportunity that sums up Vienna\u2019s Secession. I always make scale models for the projects too, and lately, I\u2019ve made models of the photographs at a one-to-one scale, so that I can get a better sense of the final works in space.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Deschenes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45167\" title=\"Deschenes1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Deschenes1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Deschenes1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Deschenes1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You have some upcoming shows, in London at Campoli Presti and in New York at Miguel Abreu Gallery. Will <em>Stereograph #1\u2013#16<\/em> be presented again soon elsewhere? Will the installation change, or be \u201cfinished,\u201d if so?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve decided not to reconfigure these works in new venues. As for the works being finished, I\u2019m reminded of the title of Johanna Burton\u2019s essay for Secession\u2019s catalogue, which was drawn from something I said in an interview recently. I was asked about my relation to Henri Cartier-Bresson\u2019s notion of the decisive\u00a0moment and in response I said that in my work, \u201cThere is no decisive moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But actually, there are so many decisive moments, and their effect is\u00a0cumulative. Sometimes decisions are altered or changed entirely\u2014for instance, I thought this work could travel to London, but it will not. Instead, I&#8217;ll make new pieces that will respond to that site in more specific ways that are yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stereographic vision activates the viewer, making one more aware of the constantly changing work in the gallery. It seems like this perception could also extend outside of the gallery, too. Is that something you aim for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes\u2014and I\u2019d like to take on other venues too, not just galleries and museums.\u00a0I don\u2019t have an ideal site, though I like the idea of the work being installed at unexpected places,\u00a0like when On Kawara\u2019s work was installed in an elementary school classroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re deeply engaged with photography, but there\u2019s also a painterly and sculptural aspect to your work. Still, I wonder if light is really your medium. Do these works represent light, or is it more that they are light?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The work reflects or absorbs light, certainly. 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