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Inframince #16

The image is but a tiny fragment of the visible, which is itself but a tiny portion
of reality.
It therefore seemed necessary to us to turn our gaze towards this invisible part,
despite the inevitable paradox that this entails. For that which remains invisible—whether it is kept
outside the frame or remains inaccessible to the gaze—is by no means without effect.

This invisibility determines, marks out and organises the realm of the visible. Silent, the invisible is present in every
process of image production, either as a prohibition or as a horizon. It is the hallmark of

aesthetic, technical and political distinctions. It is what enables us to reflect on the limits of our modes
of representation.

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This issue explores the boundaries of the visible, examining various objects and different
forms of invisibility. In conversation with Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza and Camille Ayme, we discuss the invisibility
imposed upon or rejected by certain bodies kept under surveillance. With Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo,
photographic technique is presented as an element of a colonial operation that needs
to be rethought from its reverse angle, from the perspective of what lies beneath the camera’s gaze. From a
different angle, yet facing the same situation and using the example of Man Ray, Damarice Amao considers
the off-screen space as a site of political action. Escaping representation would be a form
of reclaiming, a way of escaping the grip of ideologies. Since Foucault, the question of
visibility and surveillance has inevitably emerged as a paradigm of governance. Invisibility
thus manifests itself as a strategy, a strategy that concerns first and foremost the photographer,
a specialist operator of the visible.

We must question the role of photography in blinding us and, conversely, the alternative forms
that emerge from the pressure of the visible. Timothée Pugeault thus explores the expansion of the frame of

the image through technology. In Geert Goiris’s work, in a more contemplative vein, it is
the photographic medium itself that reveals what the eye cannot see. Finally, an interview with Wolfgang
Tillmans allows us to explore the limits and contradictions of the image, which constantly comes up against
the invisible, simultaneously revealing and concealing it.

Contents

EDITORIAL | Nicolas Giraud

PORTFOLIO | A Welcoming Atmosphere
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza

FEATURE |

Veiled Politics, Damarice Amao
Toumayacha Alakana, Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo
Blinding and Foreseeing, Nicolas Giraud
Ad mortem æternam, Camille Ayme

LABORATORY | On the Investigative Reading of Images
Timothée Pugeault

INTERVIEW | On the Edge of the Visible
Wolfgang Tillmans

PORTFOLIO | Seeing by Other Means
Geert Goiris

BOOKS |

London, Sergio Larrain
Flux: A Society in Motion, collective work
Towards Documentary Photography
Review, Philippe Bazin