Michele Asselin: Exposure: AF Projects Los Angeles
Michele Asselin
"Exposure" - 12/05/21 to 01/21/22
Opening December 12th - 2 to 4pm
7503 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles
Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of LA based photographer Michele Asselin at AFP, entitled "Exposure" and featuring a body of new works.
The series featured in the exhibit Exposure begins with two near-universal experiences: noticing sunlight on a wall, and staring, against all better judgment, straight into the sun.
The series draws on my past practice of seeking out the social meaning of built environments and revealing how spaces absorb traces of their occupants’ lives over time. With Exposure, however, I turned the lens on my own environment. Using natural light as technique and subject, the first set of images depict my own home, as well as a space in the desert in which I have spent significant time—looking at walls, isolating details, considering the past. In these interior photographs, I use sunlight as a guide, imaging only where it falls, and capturing the moment when direct sunbeams breach windows and doorways.
The series moved outdoors when wildfires erupted nearby. Thick, dense air blocked any sense of an expansive sky, so that being outside felt uncannily like being inside. The imagery created was both real and unreal, the mechanical version of staring into the sun. As the sky ranged day by day in color and density, so did the camera’s interpretation.
The juxtaposition of these two forms of sunlight considers our changing relationship to the natural world.
Michele Asselin is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work explores the impact of the social and physical environment on human experience. She draws on editorial techniques to examine how people and places come to reflect the systems of which they are a part. Asselin worked for the Associated Press in the Middle East while living in Jerusalem. Her portraiture has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Esquire, and New York Magazine among others. Asselin has been an artist-in-residence at the National Domestic Workers Alliance and collaborated on projects with social organizations Street to Home in New York City and The Institute for Facial Paralysis in Los Angeles. She has completed public art commissions in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and The City of Inglewood, California. She is the author of Clubhouse Turn (2020), published by Angel City Press.
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Michele AsselinExposure 14, 2020Archival Pigment Print76.2 x 101.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 26, 2020Archival Pigment Print121.9 x 162.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 33, 2020Archival Pigment Print38.1 x 50.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 395, 2020Archival Pigment Print91.4 x 116.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 91, 2020Archival Pigment Print25.4 x 33.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 65, 2020Archival Pigment Print38.1 x 50.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 77, 2020Archival Pigment Print76.2 x 101.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 66, 2020Archival Pigment Print76.2 x 101.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 50, 2020Archival Pigment Print76.2 x 101.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 79, 2020Archival Pigment Print76.2 x 101.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 565, 2020Archival Pigment Print76.2 x 101.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure Grid, 2020Archival Pigment Print85 x 83.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 991, 2020Archival Pigment Print38.1 x 50.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 48, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 74, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 01, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 96, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 19, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 55, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 60, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 94, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 59, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 23, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 68, 2020Archival Pigment Print38.1 x 50.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 54, 2020Archival Pigment Print25.4 x 33.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 76, 2020Archival Pigment Print25.4 x 33.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 15, 2020Archival Pigment Print25.4 x 33.7 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 57, 2020Archival Pigment Print25.4 x 33.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 191, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 813, 2020Archival Pigment Print38.1 x 50.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 11, 2020Archival Pigment Print38.1 x 50.8 cm (x 2 - diptych)
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Michele Asselin, Exposure 08, 2020
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Michele AsselinExposure 41, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 11, 2020Archival Pigment Print38.1 x 50.8 cm (x 2 - diptych)
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Michele AsselinExposure 660, 2020Archival Pigment Print38.1 x 50.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 219, 2020Archival Pigment Print25.4 x 33.8 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 976, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 18, 2020Archival Pigment Print76.2 x 101.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 976, 2020Archival Pigment Print17.1 x 22.9 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 18, 2020Archival Pigment Print76.2 x 101.6 cm
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Michele AsselinExposure 13, 2020Archival Pigment Print106.7 x 142.2 cm
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