Jean-Marie Reynier: POLAROIDS

This exhibition at LOWW Gallery (Tokyo) brings together a selection of Polaroids taken between 2022 and 2024 as part of a long-term body of work exploring fear not as a dramatic emotion but as a diffuse atmosphere both intimate and collective.

This exhibition brings together a selection of Polaroids taken between 2022 and 2024 as part of a long-term body of work exploring fear not as a dramatic emotion but as a diffuse atmosphere both intimate and collective.

Made through simple gestures in ordinary settings these images aim less to represent than to evoke Some reconstruct an interior studio a memory space inspired by the atmospheres found in the work of Luigi Ghirri and Giorgio Morandi Others depart from that visual reference yet follow the same search for balance light and silence.

Fear here is never explicit It settles into objects reflections shadows Memory acts as a possible response a form of quiet resistance to loss and vertigo a gentle path toward consolation It opens a space for melancholic contemplation where traces and absences form a silent language.

These images are also a form of release a way to dwell with unease without succumbing to it It is an intimate practice guided by the desire to turn anxiety into attention.