Nicolas Delaroche
Anonymous shapes
Since 2008, Nicholas Delaroche has been photographing private art collections around the world, making visible what is generally hidden from the public. His work uncovers the fragments of intimacy – Swiss, Chinese, Brazilian, French – that dialogue with the works. In a rare aesthetic nowadays, these domestic collections become cohabitations between art and life.
Freed from museums, the fugitive works offer a colourful crowd of ordinary things; they contend with local spaces and materials, light reflection or concrete aggregate, the plastics and the mirrors of the homes. Juggling frames, positioning and materials too, Unseen attractions offers a view of the private lives of domesticated works.