1. REFRAMING THE FAMILIAR
When the France’s answer to the Royal Academy, the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, established a hierarchy of genres in the 17th century it placed at the top all those that reference human subjects: history painting, portraiture and genre painting. Meanwhile, at the bottom, was the genre of still life – the depiction of things.
The desire to bear witness to another person through drawing and the wish to see our own humanity reflected in an image is imbedded in human nature, but that shouldn’t be a cause to overlook our ephemera as a worthy
