The new solo exhibition at Galerie Miranda of works by Nancy Wilson-Pajic (b. 1941) draws upon the artist’s personal archives to present early and lesser-known works in order to highlight the breadth of enquiries and processes explored throughout her long career in France and internationally. Particularly known today for her large-format photograms in cyanotype, notably of disembodied textiles - haute couture robes for Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix; historical l…

For the third capsule show of its 6th anniversary cycle, Galerie Miranda brings together 5 major artists whose different practices explore and disrupt the fundamentals of the traditional photographic medium: the darkroom, the artist's gesture and the representative function. Chuck Kelton's abstract chemigrams resemble landscapes; Laura Letinsky's still lives are in fact meticulous compositions of found images, torn and collaged; Ellen Carey's Finitograms are  ready-made  unique works, unsigned…

For the last exhibition before summer break, Miranda Salt, gallery director, proposes a selection from the gallery inventory with works by eight contemporary artists whose practise is influenced by the legcy of first woman photographer, Anna Atkins (1799-1871, English), amateur botanist and watercolorist who published in 1843 the first book to be illustrated by photographs, entitled Photographs of British Algae, cyanotype impressions. Atkins presented the algae like a herbariu…

Since 1965, Nancy Wilson-Pajic has used narrative forms to make content-oriented artworks. She played an important role in the international artistic avant-garde of the 1970s with her text-sound installations and narrative works that often explored and questioned feminine role models, and commented twenty years later that "Working on female roles, using photography, posing for disguised self-portraits, and especially making works entirely in text and recorded sound, at the time I was doin…