Charlotte Moth
Peeping mirror, 2023

Charlotte Moth has a fondness for mirrors. They help her look at what surrounds her through reflections or dim glows. These indirect modes, and especially the lightness akin to Perseus, who often guided Calvino, are Charlotte Moth’s great allies. She frequently relies on the lightest elements: handfuls of feathers scattered on the floor, grass gently concealing a form from view, a colored filter as effective as a new coat of paint, images or objects captured in mirrors, as if to live-perform the beneficial instability of perception, which often bridges the gap between photography and sculpture that the artist consistently puts in contact. This desire for indirect vision softens each gesture, allowing us to consider them through different lenses. Myths teach us to love opposites (here, lightness and gravity), especially when these opposites create space for the most minute traces, those that breathe life into an exhibition over time.

Excerpt from the introduction text to Charlotte Moth’s exhibition, dim glows [par les lueurs], at Marcelle Alix, Paris, 12 October – 21 December 2024.