Marine Hugonnier
Victor Eugène de Papeleu / Marine Hugonnier. L'Effet de minuit en Norvège 68e latitude / L'effet de minuit en Norvège 40º de latitude, Circa 1860/2020Oil on maple wood board, condition reports46 × 129 × 6 cm (18 1⁄8 × 50 25⁄32 × 2 3⁄8 inches)
This work is part of an on-going body of work which started in 2006. Marine Hugonnier’s Restoration Project, is a series paintings subjected to a process of restoration (by a qualified conservator) under the artist’s instruction to subtly work on what is understood as the “climate and temporality of an image”. The ‘restored’ paintings are exhibited alongside two typed condition reports, one made before and one after, the restoration itself existing in a space and time in between the two.
This process investigates the materiality of these images and attempts to weave the history of their materiality with their subject to create new narratives. This work is an invitation to consider the transient nature of images and our position as viewers.
