Exhibition from Thursday, December 11, 2025 to January 20, 2026
Opening: Thursday, December 11 from 6pm
David Klo composes his images from a vast visual corpus of over 500,000 photographs accumulated over thirty years, to which are added hundreds of hours of film and sound recordings from his career in documentary filmmaking. A large part of this archive, never shown, forms a dormant memory: an inner territory from which he draws to construct his compositions.
For him, digital tools are not an end in themselves, but an extension of the gesture? an organic continuity between hand and machine. Each transformation bears the trace of an emotion, a doubt, a breath. The whole evokes a poetic realism in which imperfection becomes language, and memory, raw material.
Somewhere between observation and staging, Le Bal des Paradoxes explores the fragile dance of the everyday? the dance of our imbalances, our illusions and our little truths. David Klo conjures up fragments of reality, mixed with visual fictions, memories and reconstructions. Each image becomes a space of tension between the real and the almost real. Neither entirely documentary nor purely imaginary, this work is part of a hybrid style in which photography dialogues with painting, collage and digital material. It is a theater of the ordinary world, a choreography of paradoxes: between balance and vertigo, derision and tenderness, distance and attachment.
Opening: Thursday, December 11 from 6pm
David Klo composes his images from a vast visual corpus of over 500,000 photographs accumulated over thirty years, to which are added hundreds of hours of film and sound recordings from his career in documentary filmmaking. A large part of this archive, never shown, forms a dormant memory: an inner territory from which he draws to construct his compositions.
For him, digital tools are not an end in themselves, but an extension of the gesture? an organic continuity between hand and machine. Each transformation bears the trace of an emotion, a doubt, a breath. The whole evokes a poetic realism in which imperfection becomes language, and memory, raw material.
Somewhere between observation and staging, Le Bal des Paradoxes explores the fragile dance of the everyday? the dance of our imbalances, our illusions and our little truths. David Klo conjures up fragments of reality, mixed with visual fictions, memories and reconstructions. Each image becomes a space of tension between the real and the almost real. Neither entirely documentary nor purely imaginary, this work is part of a hybrid style in which photography dialogues with painting, collage and digital material. It is a theater of the ordinary world, a choreography of paradoxes: between balance and vertigo, derision and tenderness, distance and attachment.
