Galerie Bernard Bouche in Paris is presenting 'Lusco-fusco', a new exhibition by Portuguese photographer Jorge Molder, opening March 28. The show features two interrelated photographic series, 'Dorothy' (black and white) and 'Cesare' (color), which extract and rework still images from Robert Wiene's 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' (1920) and Victor Fleming's 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939). Molder halts the cinematic narrative to explore stillness, ambiguity, and the motifs of masks, dreams, and multiple identities through self-portraiture.
This exhibition matters because Jorge Molder is a significant figure in contemporary photography, having represented Portugal at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 and received major prizes including the EDP Foundation Grand Prize. His work, which delves into the intangible realms of thought and imagination through self-representation, continues to gain recognition, with a retrospective scheduled this spring at the Museum of Modern Art in Guimarães. The show underscores the enduring relevance of Molder's meditations on time, sleep, and the double.