Kunié Sugiura: Ubiquitous conjunction

galerie frank elbaz presents "Ubiquitous conjunction", the first solo exhibition of Kunié Sugiura at the gallery. Sugiura’s practice pursues photography not as an autonomous medium but as a cross-disciplinary one. Her work brings into conjunction phenomena and matter, photography and painting, images and sculpture, and disparate times and spaces. In this way, her work fully unleashes the power of conjunction inherent in photography as a hybrid form. Encompassing darkroom experimentation — montage, solarisation, photograms — Sugiura’s practice extends the experimental history of photography’s early days. At the same time, her work anticipated the expanded field of contemporary photography, in which the medium has come to be embraced as a form of fine art. Her practice stages an encounter between photography’s past and its future.