Settled
Kapwani Kiwanga, Subduction Study #10, 2018 (Courtesy de l’artiste et de la Galerie Poggi, Paris ©️ Ange-Frédéric Koffi - ADAGP Paris, 2026)
Settled employs sedimentation processes as a metaphor for the modes of visibility and invisibility that characterise our era. Geological strata are at once visible and buried, present yet millennia-old, disclosing a history whilst simultaneously revealing its gaps. The artists gathered in this exhibition navigate the tension between accumulation and erasure, between revelation and concealment. Conceptually, the exhibition draws upon the notion of ambivalence currently explored within photographic scholarship. Rather than signifying mere indecision, ambivalence emerges here as the juxtaposition of antagonistic, often irreconcilable positions that permeate different strata of perception. This tension fundamentally shapes our relationship to the photographic image: even as photography enables us to unveil and archive reality, it simultaneously confronts us with the limits of that very visibility–with all that remains beyond the frame, inaccessible or fugitive.