Chamber of Deputies [annex IX] #2, Brasília

Vincent Fournier French, born Burkina Faso
2012
Not on view
This intimate photograph by French artist Vincent Fournier portrays the interior of the Annex of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia, one of many iconic buildings in a city almost entirely designed by the country’s great architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012). Despite being taken almost fifty years after the building’s completion, the image is ambiguous in its age. It is this careful control of light that enables the viewer to recognize the many different textures that correspond to the different materiality. The light, the choreographic location of the body, and the shooting point produce a perfectly balanced image that enacts a hyperreality closer to a stage set-up. The artist offers a human dimension as a foil to the urban-scale modernist event of Niemeyer’s Brasilia; a little and lonely human presence in an architecture so grand.

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Object Information
  • Title: Chamber of Deputies [annex IX] #2, Brasília
  • Artist: Vincent Fournier (French, born Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1970)
  • Date: 2012
  • Medium: Inkjet print
  • Edition: from an edition of 10
  • Dimensions: 35 7/16 × 60 1/4 in. (90 × 153 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. Gift, 2016
  • Object Number: 2016.322
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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