LIGHT AND THE INVISIBLE, KNEUBÜHLER AND MUSSIOL AT THE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE

The Alliance Française of Panama presents Invisible Networks: Infrastructures of Light, a photographic exhibition by two artists born in Switzerland, but based in Canada: Thomas Kneubühler and Marie-Jeanne Musiol. The exhibition is the proposal of the Embassy of Canada as a guest country in this celebration that extends during the month of March.

Thomas Kneubühler examines the technological infrastructures that shape contemporary life; from illuminated office towers and ski slopes, to telephone antennas and military sites.  Through photography and video, he explores complex socio-political issues such as the privatization of land, the exploitation of natural resources, and the effects of new technologies on society.

Their work is based on extensive research of a specific area of terrain that often involves visits to remote or restricted locations. Working in a sober documentary style, he reveals how surveillance, energy use, and unequal access intersect with everyday landscapes.

Marie-Jeanne Musiol's research practice sits at the intersection of photography, video, and the study of the natural world. Through her work, she explores the diversity and delicacy of the natural environment by recording plant elements in electrodynamic photographs that the artist calls "energetic botany."

Musiol focuses his practice on the luminous fields that surround the natural world. Through experimental techniques, including electromagnetics, he records the radiant footprints of plants and other organic forms many times without the use of a camera. These frames blur the boundaries between matter and light, revealing energetic processes normally invisible to the human eye.

The works of these two artists dialogue between the human and the natural, the technological and the organic. They invite us to stop, to observe and to understand.  To question what becomes visible when you try to photograph what cannot be seen. The exhibition is available to the public during the month of March at La Casa Blanca, headquarters of the Alliance Française de Panama.