David Sims’s enduring eye on view in A Coruña
The MOP Foundation in A Coruña is showing more than 400 photographs by David Sims, highlighting the consistency of his style. The exhibition offers a chance to follow how a single visual approach can hold together across many images.
In A Coruña, the MOP Foundation is devoting an exhibition to British photographer David Sims. More than 400 photographs are gathered here, in an installation that foregrounds the steadiness of his style rather than a sequence of surprises or abrupt shifts.
For artists and for anyone interested in painting or drawing, the appeal lies in that sustained way of looking. Seeing a body of work at this scale makes it possible to trace how one sensibility can unfold from image to image, through changes in framing, light or presence, without losing its coherence.
It also encourages a close reading of photography as a craft of control and precision. In an exhibition of this size, what matters is not only the subject matter, but the way the pictures build a visual continuity and a form of identity that becomes clear as you move through the show.
Source : Le Monde – Arts