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BOB CARNIE GALLERY

CURRENT SHOW

Man sitting in gallery space with framed prints on the floor around him. He is looking away from the screen.

Antithesis
Pierre-Marc Beaumont

This photographic series, created through in-camera multiple exposure, examines the unstable
perception of contemporary urban space. By deliberately superimposing images of the same site
shifted in time and in physical position, architectural forms begin to vibrate, dissolve, or
reconfigure themselves, as if traversed by a fragmented memory. Multiple exposure here is not a
stylistic device but a reflective mechanism: it physically engages the photographer in the act of
creation and makes visible a situated, subjective experience of the territory. Developed over more
than five years across various cities, this body of work has taken shape slowly, each location
confronting the gaze with new urban rhythms and changing configurations of verticality, scale,
and density.
The choice of high-contrast black and white reinforces this distancing from documentary realism.
It intensifies the tension inherent in the photographed scenes and situates the project within a
visual lineage that evokes both urban Expressionism and perceptual experiments of the modernist
tradition. Light cuts through, fragments, and punctuates the volumes, as though the architecture
itself were subject to latent instability. Far from adopting a neutral stance, the photographer
inscribes signs of perceptual unease into each image: the city becomes an arena of friction, even
of discomfort. These disrupted compositions articulate an anxious gaze directed toward the
supposedly stable order of human constructions.
This project is rooted in a broader inquiry into humanity’s place within the systems it constructs.
Through forms that appear to breathe, disintegrate, or resist, it questions the logics of spatial
domination and the ways in which our environments shape our modes of inhabiting the world.
Architecture, often perceived as a symbol of control and permanence, is rendered vulnerable here,
subject to invisible forces. By making these tensions perceptible, this visual research seeks to
unsettle the gaze and open a breach in the standardized representation of the city: an ever-shifting
space, marked by uncertainties that engage both the sensory and the political.



March 7 - April 26 2026
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