As part of the bicentenary of photography, Émilie Terlinden takes over the Botanical Museum with a series of paintings and a reinterpretation of Daguerre’s Diorama.
With Timelapse, Émilie Terlinden explores the transformation of images. Cut, folded, fragmented and then recomposed before being painted, they move away from any immediate interpretation to become autonomous and ambiguous forms. Inspired by European painting as well as everyday images, her compositions invite the viewer to engage in a slow and sensory experience of the gaze.
The exhibition revolves around a monumental in situ painting, a reinterpretation of Daguerre’s diorama. It is a tribute to the origins of the moving image, marking 200 years of photography.
Inspired by early visual devices, the work unfolds on two sides and gradually reveals a scene by day and then by night through a continuous transition of light, making light and time materials in their own right.