CV133 - Man Ray – Ji-Yoon Han

Ciel variable 133 - Intimacies (Fall 2026) 
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Man Ray
When Objects Dream
— Ji-Yoon Han

The 160 works brought together by the Met surveyed Man Ray’s camera-less photographic experiments—his rayographs. But there was more to this exhibition, whose refined scenography gave the impression of stepping inside the bellows of a camera obscura. In Ji-Yoon Han’s view, while the curators’ inclination toward the “ghostly magic of the works” was surprising, it echoed Man Ray’s progressive thinking, which championed creation and dreams, in contrast to fascism, which rejected emotion and desire.

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Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF, 1.2 Mo

Bibliographical Notice

Ji-Yoon Han, “Man Ray, When Objects Dream” in Ciel variable, No. 133, “Intimacies”, Montreal, 2026, p. 85-87.

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