Exposition

Assembling Hanoi: Metamorphosis of Photographic Images (2025)

Lorena Bañares

About this exposition

Interested in how photographs are constituted, this exposition situates itself in between materialities of photography to discover how photographs are actualized. Using photography as artistic research practice, it uncovers how matters, sounds, bodies, and machines intra-act within the practice of photography. The inquiry challenges the bifurcation between the outside/inside of the frame, rather it emphasizes its fluid nature. It delves into the cosmogenesis of a photograph exploring the multiple folds and transformations in actualizing a photograph revealing the intricate and dynamic assemblages of humans and non-humans from the outside folding with the inside. Thinking with Gilles Deleuze's concept of the Folds, the exposition was able to surface layers upon layers of bodily and material folds that trouble the traditional notion of photographs as images separated from the outside. In the middle of its messiness, the exposition was able to develop an Applique technique as a method of knowing that emerges from this artistic research practice. What came out are layers of images that describe photography as performative movement of matters and bodies, a metamorphosis of infinite images while navigating the rich culture of Vietnam’s Hanoi capital.
typeresearch exposition
keywordspost-human, post-photography, Deleuze, post qualitative methodology
date05/08/2023
published13/06/2025
last modified13/06/2025
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationRMIT University Vietnam
copyrightLorena Banares
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2244748/2244749
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/hub.2244748
published inHUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
portal issue4. HUB Issue #4 / Spring 2025 / Varia

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