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Excess of the Visible

All Christian Ramade needs to do to tell us a few things about the subject at hand are in these several images. It’s hard to say if they represent something, or more to the point, what they represent are the internal mechanisms of representation. Broadly stated, an itinerary that will englobe photography since in Christian’s eyes it is indeed englobing, not only pictures but painting as well, sculpture, architecture and even publicity posters, maps, mirrors, taxidermy, mold casting, cartoons, mosaic, graffiti, the tromp-l’œil and the model. So many ways of representing the real…but his images give us an even more complex idea of what we take to be the Real.